Re: automating reactions to file system changes

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Subject: Re: automating reactions to file system changes
From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2018 16:53:28 -0800
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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 isa shell script that accomplishes your goal; the C systems programming istaken care of for you.



David

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