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It stands for "inotify cron" system. Similar to the regular cron. The difference is that it handles filesystem events rather than time periods.

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trouble getting incron inotify to work

so after alex answer here are my steps : creating shell code root@ip[/]# touch mylog.sh root@ip[/]# nano mylog.sh copying the code in the mylog.sh #!/bin/bash echo "File $1 created." >> /mylog.log permission root@ip[/]# chmod +x…
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PHP script to upload file works in terminal, but not as automatical call with incron

I have a PHP script that uploads a document on a Sharepoint using cURL. If I run the scipt in the terminal, the upload process works fine. As I would like to automatically call the script whenever this file is changed, I use incron to detect a…
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incrond processes with shell script only exit if script exit code is 1?

Configuration I have incrond 0.5.12 on CentOS 7.6 configured as follows in /etc/incron.d/example: /var/tmp/dir IN_CREATE sh /root/incron_script.sh $@/$# My /root/incron_script.sh simply contains the following: echo "$@" >>…
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Incron doesn't do anything

I intstalled on a new vm with centos 7 incron. I try to make it work but a simple command does nothing. incrontab -e : /home/test IN_CLOSE_WRITE touch "$@/$#.new" nothing special When i watch the log cron i see this : May 13 11:40:57 Minions…
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Incron to copy new files

I have CentOS 7 with installed and running incrond. As I understand incrond service can monitor /var/www/html/uploads/ and if a new file is uploaded - then using IN_CREATE we can do something. In my case I'd like to copy this new file to directory…
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Incron feature in cloudlinux

Is incron is supported in cloudlinux ? After some googling I found that inotify is supported in cloudlinux. I couldn't find anything regarding to incron.
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watch a subdirectory with incron

I use incron for watch a direcory and run a script if a file is added. In /etc/incron.d/ I have a file with: /home/pat0/downloads IN_CLOSE_WRITE /var/www/owncloud/scanOC.sh pat0 It's ok when I add a file in /home/pat0/downloads but, if I create a…
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Incron job is not being executed

I am using incron to monitor one of my file in /var/www/html directory. output of incrontab -l /var/www/html/test IN_ACCESS /home/intel/test.sh This job is supposed to create a file in home directory, But when this job got executed (I opened the…
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Sub directory not getting copied to remote server using Rsync Linux

I tried with copying directory and files to remote Linux machine using rsync and incrontab. It's working fine copying files to remote server. Incrontab /data/AMOS_SHARE/CHV_BE/ IN_MODIFY,IN_CREATE,IN_DELETE,IN_CLOSE_WRITE,IN_MOVE…
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Using Zenity in a root incron job to display message to currently logged in user

Working on a script to auto-upload files that are placed in a directory, and then display a link to them to the currently logged in user. Users of the machine will be authenticated via LDAP. The directory that is being watched by incron is outside…
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Run rake outside of rails_root/Incron doesn't run rake or bundle commands for rails

I have a rails application in /home/myuser/watchDir/myapp and an incron job set to watch the ../watchDir for modification. Once triggered, incron will run a script, /usr/local/bin/myscript.sh. This is the only place I could get incron to run a…
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incron and subliminial subtitle downloader

I've been looking for some time for an automatic subtitle downloader that would monitor new file in specific folder and I found out the CLI subliminal which is python based (this tool is really great if you don't know it). Next step was to trigger…
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Incron executes the script two times

I had a question about incron settings. It looks i've got an event trigger with IN_MODIFY,IN_ATTRIB,IN_CLOSE_WRITE and I'd like to know if two options are triggered then that will execute the script twice? Because it seems the case today. It looks…
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incron does not respond to writing new files in a new folder. how do I fix it?

I want to track file changes (writing) in a folder. I made this parameter /root/var/ IN_CLOSE_WRITE curl "https://api.telegram.org/......." And if I load a file into the var folder, curl will work, but if I create a new folder at the beginning and…
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incrontab $@ giving subdirectory and not watched directory

/tmp/target_dir IN_MODIFY,IN_CREATE,IN_MOVED_TO /tmp/script.sh $@ contents of script.sh echo $1 > /tmp/script.log on executing cp -r some_dir /tmp/target_dir contents of /tmp/script.log /tmp/target_dir on executing cp some_file…
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