does not work on my linux server with python 2.7.5

[sunmoonone]

I run the filewatch.py example on my linux centos 7 with default python
no event triggered

[sunmoonone]

./filewatch.py hello.txt 

and then in another terminal:

echo hello >  hello.txt

no output in the running terminal

python version:

Python 2.7.5 (default, Jun 24 2015, 00:41:19) 
[GCC 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9)] on linux2

[asettouf]

What's your kernel version? (uname -a) According to the readme, you need at least Linux 2.6, (or at the very least the inotify API), can you confirm it is present?

[parknom]

Same problem...
OS : CentOS 7

python

Python 2.7.5 (default, Aug  4 2017, 00:39:18) 
[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

uname -r

3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64

[phdru]

Doesn't work for me either with echo 1 >testfile. Debian 9

$ uname -a
Linux 4.9.0-6-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) i686 GNU/Linux

But when I edited the testfile with vim I got

attrib /home/phd/tmp/testfile 
delete self /home/phd/tmp/testfile 

dirwatch.py works.