replaced watchdog with pyinotify

core/configwatcher.py

@@ -17,24 +17,27 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
 # USA
 #
-
-from watchdog.observers import Observer
-from watchdog.events import FileSystemEventHandler
+import pyinotify
+import threading
 from configobj import ConfigObj
 
-class ConfigWatcher(FileSystemEventHandler):
+class ConfigWatcher(pyinotify.ProcessEvent):
 
     @property
     def config(self):
         return ConfigObj("./config/mitmf.conf")
 
-    def on_modified(self, event):
+    def process_IN_MODIFY(self, event):
         self.on_config_change()
 
     def start_config_watch(self):
-        observer = Observer()
-        observer.schedule(self, path='./config', recursive=False)
-        observer.start()
+        wm = pyinotify.WatchManager()
+        wm.add_watch('./config/mitmf.conf', pyinotify.IN_MODIFY)
+        notifier = pyinotify.Notifier(wm, self)
+        
+        t = threading.Thread(name='ConfigWatcher', target=notifier.loop)
+        t.setDaemon(True)
+        t.start()
 
     def on_config_change(self):
         """ We can subclass this function to do stuff after the config file has been modified"""