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| 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 |
| Message-ID | <x2VBT-7se-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <x2Uw9-6Q0-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <x2UFP-6Tj-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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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