[ale] Monitoring dhcpd.leases file?

[James Sumners]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Scott Bragg <walkingbear at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd approach it by experimenting with inotifywait  and piping the diff of
> the pre-change with post-change file.


`tail -f` now defaults to using the inotify API if it is present. So to
test the application I wrote I simply did a `tail -f dhcpd.leases |
socat unix-connect:/var/run/dhcpd-tracker.inpu stdio` (where
dhcpd-tracker.input is the Unix socket my application listens to).


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