Hello all, I need to trigger a job on a hudson server, and a new file or email will do just fine. I just found out about inotify and incron, and found Falko Timme's tutorial in these forums http://www.howtoforge.com/triggering-commands-on-file-or-directory-changes-with-incron very clear. I am on Ubuntu 11.04 and have installed both inotify-tools and incron. I have also added root to the /etc/incron.allow file. Inotify commands are working from the command line, and I am able to insert, list and remove incron commands using incrontab with the corresponding -e, -l and -r options successfully. The issue is that I have added the following using 'sudo incrontab -e': Code: /home/systest IN_CREATE echo "This is an incron test" > /home/systest/cron_test.txt I save the contents and incrontab reports back that the table is updated. I cd to the /home/systest directory and using gvim create a new file named 'junk' and save it. If I perform an 'ls' at this point, I expect to see the new file 'cron_test.txt' but it isn't there. Is there any other configuration to procedures I need to perform to get incron to work? Thank you in advance, Mike
Dear Falko, Thank you for the tutorial and the IN_MODIFY suggestion. However, changing the mask to IN_MODIFY still did not trigger the script to write to the /home/systest directory. I did find that I was supposed to setup an incron.conf file that points to itself and the incron.allow files, and I also learned that I needed to start the incrond daemon. Even with all of that, incron is not triggering. Is there anything else that I need to do? Much thanks, -Mike L.
