jsdf/perv

A tool to watch your filesystem and display logged activity via a web interface. Originally created to assist with time tracking.

perv

perv watches your project directories and logs events to help you keep track of your time. data can be stored in a mysql or sqlite database. it relies on inotify so it only works on linux.

to get started, run npm install. if using sqlite also run npm install sqlite3. if using mysql create an empty database to use for storage. copy either default-mysql.config.json or default-sqlite.config.json to config.json, editing it to contain access details for your database, an array of minimatch path patterns for files and directories you want to watch, and also the port you want the 'viewer' web app to run on.

to begin logging events, run 'node perv-watcher.js'. to view logged events, run 'node perv-viewer.js' and point your web browser to the machine and port you're running the viewer on. by default that would be http://localhost:8080/

perv's Issues

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Hey James!

Your project looks really interesting. I was trying to give it a shot but didn't have much success. I was thinking you might want to update your readme file so newbies such as myself can have better luck to get it to work? Here's what I did (and where I'm stuck):

1. Downloaded the master repo into my ~/Sites folder
2. Created MySQL database called perv
3. Duplicated and renamed confi.json and updated it's contents (BTW, this file has some left overs of some merge conflict, so I cleaned that up)
4. On the console, I run npm install on my perv dir, which failed due to a problem to install [email protected] (weird error 127)
5. Anyways I run node config.js
6. Than node perv-watcher.js which throws an error on module.js:340: Cannot find module './build/Debug/inotify' — so no watching for me
7. Anyways I run node perv-viewer.js and go to localhost:61234 and that works but obviously has no data.

Any clue on what I might be doing wrong?

Cheers!