On Du, 01 ian 12, 16:45:59, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote: > Moving on to more constructive efforts ... > > peter@joule:~$ incrontab -l > /home/peter/test IN_MODIFY touch ~/indicator 2>&1 > > Then according to my thinking, sending a fresh copy of test > to Joule using FTP, should trigger "touch ~/indicator". If > there is no pre-existing indicator, then an empty file should > be created. Doesn't work. A detail which bothers me is > the absence of connected terminal for stdout and stderr. > Is that the problem? Is it elsewhere? Do you have anything in syslog? Did you try running incrond with --foreground? Does it work if you do local operations on /home/peter/test? You should also read the FAQs at http://inotify.aiken.cz/ (also for inotify). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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