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Re: automating reactions to file system changes

From David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: automating reactions to file system changes
Date 2018-12-09 02:00 +0100
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On 12/8/18 3:55 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 03:48:56PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
>> On Linux, the inotify(7) is an alternative to polling:
>>
>>      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify
> 
> Specifically, I have had very good success with incron.

Yes, incrond(8) and incrontab(5) look very appealing -- all you need is 
a shell script that accomplishes your goal; the C systems programming is 
taken care of for you.


David

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automating reactions to file system changes David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-12-09 00:50 +0100
  Re: automating reactions to file system changes Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-09 01:00 +0100
    Re: automating reactions to file system changes David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-12-09 02:00 +0100
  Re: automating reactions to file system changes "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2018-12-09 02:30 +0100

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