Command line Twitter client

I had a need, in one of the projects I have been hacking on recently, for a way for an automated process to send messages to a twitter feed based on certain system events – log file changes, inotify updates, etc. The various existing projects seemed to do much more than I needed and were […]

Marcus Povey

I had a need, in one of the projects I have been hacking on recently, for a way for an automated process to send messages to a twitter feed based on certain system events – log file changes, inotify updates, etc. The various existing projects seemed to do much more than I needed and were […]

Playing around with inotify

Inotify is a Linux subsystem which monitors the filesystem for changes, and provides a way to trigger actions when it does. This is handy, since it means that your program/demon can avoid polling for changes constantly, making it more efficient and reliable. As an aside, this is how the Linux Dropbox tool works. I was […]

Marcus Povey

Inotify is a Linux subsystem which monitors the filesystem for changes, and provides a way to trigger actions when it does. This is handy, since it means that your program/demon can avoid polling for changes constantly, making it more efficient and reliable. As an aside, this is how the Linux Dropbox tool works. I was […]