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Unlike time driven cron, incrond uses inotify events—such as changes to a specific file—to trigger.

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How can I get incron to run a task when a file is overwritten?

I have data extract that gets updated by another server. I want to run a script whenever that file is updated. My incron task looks similar to: /path/to/file IN_MODIFY php -f /path/to/script.php -- -arg val -arg val This task does not run when the…
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Setting up inotify (incron) to monitor several directories using asterisk

I am trying to create an entry in /etc/incron.d/ that'd monitor all changes done under the following directories: /var/www/virtualhosts/dev.anuary.com/*/*/public/css Now, I assume this should be as simple…
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What resources is incrond using? What can make it stop?

Incrontab is set up to monitor approx. 10 directories. The only thing it does is that it starts a Bash script when the new file is received inside one of these directories. Approximately, one file is received every 5 minutes, in each of the dirs.…
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Incron executes only once

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…
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Run a script as root from apache

I would like to update my hosts file and restart dnsmasq from a web interface (php/apache2). I tried playing around with suid bits (the demonstaration). I have both apache and dnsmasq running on an EC2 instance. I understand that Linux ignores the…
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incrontab watching files uploaded through vsftpd

I have a process where users ftp particular files to /home/ftp/file1.txt & /home/ftp/file2.txt any given time of the day. I setup incrontab with the following: /home/ftp/file1.txt IN_CLOSE_WRITE myCustomCMD /home/ftp/file2.txt IN_CLOSE_WRITE…
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incrond is firing my rclone but the rclone is not working... but from the command line the rclone command works fine

So in my incrond I have the following: /home/mounts/localdisk/LINUXBACKUP/binlog/ IN_ATTRIB,IN_CREATE,IN_CLOSE_WRITE rclone sync /home/mounts/localdisk/LINUXBACKUP/binlog/ GoogleDLinux:LINUXBACKUP/BINLOGS/ in my sys.log I I can see in my syslog…
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CENTOS 7 - incrond service doesn't start properly on reboot

I'm having some trouble with incrond not starting properly after a reboot. If I check the service, everything looks ok: $ systemctl is-active incrond.service active $ systemctl is-enabled incrond.service enabled But the service isn't working -…
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Detect which scripts are using old interpreters

I have a few Debian machines with some nearly-orphaned script interpreters, for example /bin/bash3 and /usr/bin/perl510. How can I detect those scripts that still have the aforementioned interpreters in their shebang…
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Incrontab does not execute command

I have copied this question over here from unix.StackOverflow When I use incrontab out of the box, I mean no changes, I get no result, as if the cmd was not executed. my incron line is : /crrae IN_CREATE,IN_CLOSE_WRITE,IN_MOVED_TO /usr/bin/unix2dos…
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cron takes UTC time instead of local time

I've a script set in cronjob to run at 00 hours but it runs 5 hours earlier ie at 7PM local of earlier day. I mean it was supposed to run at local 00 hours of local time but it ran at 00 hours of UTC/GMT. timedatectl output …
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Incrond | Use $HOSTNAME environmental variable

I'm using Incrond to check a folder for file changes which triggers a Rsync job to our storage server. This configuration is deployed through Puppet, and therefore would like to use the $HOSTNAME variable in the destination path so it writes to it's…
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Running python script in incrontab in Debian

I have a user, dropbox, that runs the Dropbox daemon, I want to monitor the directories in the Dropbox directory for new files and run a python script when they appear. I have the python script that I know works: $ /home/dropbox/monitor.py Trying to…
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What is wrong with my Watcher (incron-like) daemon?

I have installed Watcher this way: both watcher.py and watcher.ini are located in /etc I also installed pyinotify and it does work when I use python -m pyinotify -v /var/www However, I want to use the daemon and when I start watcher.py, I get weird…
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debian symlink existing daemon incrond to start at boot

I'm triying to start the incron daemon "incrond" at boot but doesn't work. I have done : ln -s /usr/sbin/incrond /etc/init.d/incrond chmod 755 /etc/init.d/incrond update-rc.d incrond enable But no "incrond" pid is running there. Question Shall I…
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