Questions tagged [inotify]
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How does inotify work?
According to Wikipedia,
inotify is a Linux kernel subsystem which notices changes to the file system. It replaced the previous dnotify.
Programs that sync files (such as crashplan, dropbox, git) recomend in user guides that the user increase…
spuder
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Will incron's IN_CREATE event give me a blank file?
I want to monitor a directory for new files, which will be created by another process. I plan to use incrod to do this.
I am not interested in reacting to changes in files, as the files should never be updated. Therefore the IN_CREATE event seems…
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How can I see how many inotify watchers a user has open?
When I run a command in a container, I'm getting
inotify_init1() failed: Too many open files
How can I see how many inotify watchers I have open and what's holding them open?
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Alternative to inotifywait which allows easy working on *.json files only
It seems that inotifywait works with exclude lists only.
I have seen the workarounds, but don't like them:
How to use inotifywait to watch a directory for creation of files of a specific extension
Is there a tool which allows listening for *.json…
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Share an instance of inotify between processes
I have a big folder of many (40,000+) files that are watched by at least 3 programs each one using inotify watches to detect changes (media servers, sync apps,...).
Each program runs it's own instance of inotify, consuming a lot of watches, and…
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Are inotify events guaranteed to come in the right order?
I have a single thread writing a stream of data into files in a directory. The data stream can pause for any length of time just as easily as it writes a continuous trickle of data. It writes one file at a time and whenever the file grows too…
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inotify detect a new file write without missing write_close event
I want to watch a file created and written in a directory by a process. I don't have access to inotifywait tool, so I'm using just the inotify library calls. I start with IN_CREATE to monitor that the file was created. If the file of interest was…
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Notify when programs access path only via specific symlink
My HDD mountpoint was at /mnt/old, now I changed it to /mnt/new
So for seamless transition now /mnt/old is a symlink to /mnt/new.
Gradually I want all the programs to use the new mountpoint.
How can I monitor what programs access the old path…
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How can I terminate a process if a second inotify event occurs?
inotifywait -q -m -e close_write,create --recursive ../orgmode-parse-print |
while read -r filename event; do
echo $filename;
echo $event
sleep infinity;
done
The problem with the above is it 'sleeps' forever and never terminates. How…
Chris Stryczynski
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incrontab reports modifying a file that doesn't exists
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: $2)" >> /home/me/changes.log
When I use tail -f /home/me/changes.log it repeatedly prints…
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inotifywait : insert arbitrary string to output format
I want to capture inotify CLOSE_WRITE events in a directory and write CSV info to a history file.
My attempt :
#!/bin/bash
dir=/home/stephen/temp
host=$(hostname)
inotifywait -e close_write -m --timefmt '%Y-%m-%d,%H:%M' --format '%T,$host,%e,%w,%f'…
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inotifywait not working with Visual Studio Code
I tried to make myself a small shell script that would watch for file changes using inotifywait and copy modified/created files and delete deleted files to some destination folder (or rsync specific file). I was not able to make this work.…
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What is mean of "not explicitly being listened" on manual page of inotifywait?
man inotifywait:
delete_self
A watched file or directory was deleted. After this event the file or directory is no longer being watched. Note that this event can
occur even if it is not explicitly being listened for.
unmount
The…
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inotify not working on one specific folder
I have a problem where inotify, no matter what I do, doesn't detect changes in one specific folder. It detects changes in other folders that otherwise are no different. What could be causing this?
inotifywait 3.14
Linux titan 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP…
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Inotifywait not executing when actions to be taken are on remote server
I am trying to monitor file creation with inotifywait and execute a long script on every file creation.
Everything works smoothly when the action to be taken is on the same server.
But when it requires doing something on a remote server, the action…
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