rfswatcher

Remote filesystem watcher. this service provide ability to watch remote paths on configured server and clone these changes into local client.

Components

• Server this type of configuration provides a watcher over given path, and accept connection from configured clients.
• Client provice a tcp connection into configured server, and over change notifications download given changes from server and create local changes.

Command line options

option	description	default
-c,-config	specify configuration file for service	config.yml

Server configuration

here is the server configuration file example:

type: server
address: localhost:9901
path: /path/to/the/file/or/directory/you/want/to/watch
server:
  # optional
  tls:
    key: /path/to/private/key
    cert: /path/to/certificate

  # optional
  pwfile: /path/to/password-file

User management

to add/remove user, you should first set the pwfile in server config and run these commands:

# add user
rfswatcher -create-user

# delete user
rfswatcher -delete-user

Client configuration

here is the server configuration file example:

type: client
address: <server-address>
path: /path/you/want/to/save/files
client:
  # optional
  username: username
  password: password

  # optional
  tls: true

Issues

Following issues resists in developed service and need to fixed.

• Unsecure connection.
• Session management with clients.
• Improve file transfer size.
• List files on first connection into server.
• Ignore duplicated events in client.