iWatch is a real-time filesystem monitoring program.

iWatch is a realtime filesystem monitoring program. Its purpose is to monitor any changes in a specific directory or file and send email notification immediately after the change. This can be very useful to watch a sensible file or directory against any changes, like files /etc/passwd,/etc/shadow or directory /bin or to monitor the root directory of a website against any unwanted changes.

This application is written in Perl and need inotify support in Linux kernel >= 2.6.13. And it needs also following third party perl modules: Linux::Inotify2, Event, Mail::Sendmail and XML::SimpleObject::LibXML.

This project is hosted in sourceforge http://iwatch.sourceforge.net [4] ,
and was introduced in a popular german linux magazine as cover story in march and april 2007 edition http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/77/Detecting_Intruders_Intro.pdf. [5]