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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to monitor the changes on files Post 302963716 by sea on Tuesday 5th of January 2016 06:52:58 AM
Old 01-05-2016
Using plaintext passwords in scripts is a no-go for security reasons.
You 'tell your customers' to 'not write down the password' yet 'you' share them with every script?!

Using credentials (per user) gives you more ability to trace which user(-group) has done what.
Unlike as of now, where everyone using the scripts use the same password/login.

You 'save it all', and set the archive flag (is this valid in *nix like systems?)
Afterwards, all you need to do is to list the files without archieve flag, as that should be removed when the file is changed.

I believe rsync has such a function, to just list (not sync) the files different from last run.
That list could be used to figure differences.

If the projecto cos are git or svn, tell them to do 'commits', so you could see in each project the source change.

My 2 cents, hth
 

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propwatch(1)						      General Commands Manual						      propwatch(1)

NAME

       propwatch - a tool to monitor X11 properties

SYNOPSIS

       propwatch [ toolkit-options ] property-name ...

DESCRIPTION

       propwatch is a tool to monitor window properties of root and application windows.  Nice for debugging property-based IPC of X11 programs.

OPTIONS

       propwatch uses the Athena Widgets and accepts the usual toolkit options like -geometry.

       All  remaining  command	line  arguments are assumed to be property names which should be monitored.  If no property names are specified, a
       build in default set will be used.

ENVIRONMENT

       DISPLAY
	      specifies the display to use for the propwatch window.

       PROPWATCH
	      specifies the display to monitor.  It unset, DISPLAY will be used.

SEE ALSO

       xprop(1), xhost(1), xauth(1)

AUTHOR

       Gerd Knorr <kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 1997-99 Gerd Knorr
       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY	WARRANTY;  without  even  the  implied	warranty  of  MER-
       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

							      (c) 1998,99 Gerd Knorr						      propwatch(1)
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