- 10.4: Monitor file system events in real time
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OS X 10.4 has a private API that's used by Spotlight to monitor file system events such as file creation, renaming, and permission changes. Several command line and GUI tools are now available that can suscribe to the event notification system and provide a log of the events. These are useful for, e.g., monitoring files created by installers, and so forth. For reasons that will become clear in a moment, let me first mention a few GUI tools: fseventer (donationware): Provides a real-time graphical view of changes occuring in your filesystem. Sonar (commercial): File activity monitor (I haven't tried it). Yank (commercial): An uninstaller (I h...
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