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I have created this incrontab entry:

/tmp IN_ALL_EVENTS /home/me/changes.sh $@/$# $%

and this script (changes.sh):

#!/bin/bash 
echo "file $1  changed(flgs: $2)" >> /home/me/changes.log

When I use tail -f /home/me/changes.log it repeatedly prints this lines:

file /tmp/vteH1QPVW  changed(flgs: IN_MODIFY)
file /tmp/vteNZQPVW  changed(flgs: IN_MODIFY)
file /tmp/vteH1QPVW  changed(flgs: IN_MODIFY)
file /tmp/vteH1QPVW  changed(flgs: IN_MODIFY)
file /tmp/vteNZQPVW  changed(flgs: IN_MODIFY)
file /tmp/vteH1QPVW  changed(flgs: IN_MODIFY)
file /tmp/vteNZQPVW  changed(flgs: IN_MODIFY)
file /tmp/vteH1QPVW  changed(flgs: IN_MODIFY)
file /tmp/vteNZQPVW  changed(flgs: IN_MODIFY)
file /tmp/vteH1QPVW  changed(flgs: IN_MODIFY)
file /tmp/vteH1QPVW  changed(flgs: IN_MODIFY)
file /tmp/vteNZQPVW  changed(flgs: IN_MODIFY)
file /tmp/vteNZQPVW  changed(flgs: IN_MODIFY)
file /tmp/vteNZQPVW  changed(flgs: IN_MODIFY)
file /tmp/vteH1QPVW  changed(flgs: IN_MODIFY)
file /tmp/vteH1QPVW  changed(flgs: IN_MODIFY)

What these files could be? I can't find them in the /tmp directory. I also don't see any IN_DELETE flag for these files in the log file.

John
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Your whole system may be creating temporary files and removing them constantly from /tmp. Subscribing to all events in this directory seems like a bit of an odd idea, at least you'd expect stuff like that.

benjaoming
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