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Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?



David Wright wrote:

> Myself, I find inotify-tools more useful: I use inotifywait
> in a loop, waiting for a browser to close files in its
> cache. I then examine their filetype and copy the ones
> I want, giving them sensible (timestamp) names. Very useful
> for capturing (typically, live) video.
>
> But I can see the usefulness of iwatch if you're maintaining
> a website or a server farm, as in their examples. (My random
> collection of PCs only constitutes a smallholding.)

Yeah, I'm sure it is a good tool when it works but here
something has gone haywire so better remove it...

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