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Prashanth Ganesh
Asked: 2015-03-04 06:10:59 +0800 CST

Incron executes only once

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I have an incron configured , in the incrontab. The event gets executed only once after the reload and incron disables the watch after that and the event does not get triggered by incrontab table looks like

/unmetric_ebs/unmetric/props/unmetric-conf.properties IN_MODIFY,IN_CLOSE,IN_CLOSE_WRITE,IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE /bin/sh /root/inotify.sh /unmetric_ebs/unmetric/props/unmetric-conf.properties

Could you please help me with this issue.

incrontab

1 Answers

  1. This sounds like a bug in incrond. Nothing the incron docs mentions triggering only once per event vs each time. Considering the software is labeled "alpha quality", it sounds like a bug in the software. Consider inquiring with the developers.

    I'm not sure what you are trying solve, but consider that systemd-based systems support activating services based on inotify events. This functionality is available by default on a number of Linux distributions now and is considered production-ready. Consider investigating using systemd instead.

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