AIX monitoring directory changes

Question

I'm on AIX 5.3 and I'm a total noob with that OS. I was wondering if there is something like inotify on AIX so that one can monitor directories and files for changes instead of polling. I'm going to do this from Java so solutions using Java or C (I can just wrap it with jni or jna) are fine. I'd rather not use any shell scripting or system configuration stuff.

Answer 1

you could try looking to see if there are hooks into audit, which sounds like it could be have the functionality you want.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds1/audit.htm