Re (2): incrontab usage

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From:	Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:44:48 +0200
> Do you have anything in syslog?

Nothing.

> Did you try running incrond with  --foreground? 

OK, that shows two problems.

With 
peter@joule:~$ incrontab -l 
/home/peter/test IN_MODIFY touch indicator 
the result is
root@joule:/etc# /usr/sbin/incrond -nf /etc/incron.conf
touch: cannot touch `indicator': Permission denied
touch: cannot touch `indicator': Permission denied
and is fixed by giving a legal path to indicator.
peter@joule:~$ incrontab -l
/home/peter/test IN_MODIFY touch /home/peter/indicator

The 2nd problem is more subtle.  
peter@joule:~$ incrontab -l
/home/peter/test IN_MODIFY touch /home/peter/indicator 2>&1
gives 
root@joule:/etc# /usr/sbin/incrond -nf /etc/incron.conf
touch: cannot touch `2>&1': Permission denied
touch: cannot touch `2>&1': Permission denied

touch takes an arbitrary number of file name arguments.  
How can its output and errors be redirected?

Thanks,             ... Peter E.


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