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 Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3 (2016-07-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux
inotify works as expected here:
In one terminal:
ben@titan:~$ mkdir -p notifytest/example
ben@titan:~$ cd notifytest
ben@titan:~/notifytest$ inotifywait -rme attrib,modify,move,create,delete . --exclude '(log|[a-z]+.sqlite)'
In another terminal:
ben@titan:~$ cd notifytest
ben@titan:~/notifytest$ touch test.txt
ben@titan:~/notifytest$ touch example/test.txt
ben@titan:~/notifytest$ rm example/test.txt
ben@titan:~/notifytest$ rm test.txt
Output:
Setting up watches. Beware: since -r was given, this may take a while!
Watches established.
./ CREATE test.txt
./ ATTRIB test.txt
./example/ CREATE test.txt
./example/ ATTRIB test.txt
./example/ DELETE test.txt
./ DELETE test.txt
inotify doesn't work as expected here:
I have an existing folder called blog that is ignored :(
I create a new folder called example that is correctly watched
In one terminal:
ben@titan:~$ cd some-path
ben@titan:~/some-path$ ls
drwxr-xr-x 3 ben ben 4096 Aug 16 14:23 blog
-rw-r--r-- 1 ben ben 17408 Aug 15 13:58 blog.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- 1 ben ben 325 Aug 15 13:01 config.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-run www-run 91800 Aug 16 14:23 log
drwxr-xr-x 2 ben ben 4096 Aug 15 14:14 public_html
-rw-r--r-- 1 ben ben 1999 Aug 15 16:21 schema.sql
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ben ben 6019 Aug 16 14:01 start.py
ben@titan:~/some-path$ mkdir example
ben@titan:~/some-path$ ls
drwxr-xr-x 3 ben ben 4096 Aug 16 14:23 blog
-rw-r--r-- 1 ben ben 17408 Aug 15 13:58 blog.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- 1 ben ben 325 Aug 15 13:01 config.py
drwxr-xr-x 2 ben ben 4096 Aug 16 14:28 example
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-run www-run 91800 Aug 16 14:23 log
drwxr-xr-x 2 ben ben 4096 Aug 15 14:14 public_html
-rw-r--r-- 1 ben ben 1999 Aug 15 16:21 schema.sql
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ben ben 6019 Aug 16 14:01 start.py
ben@titan:~/some-path$ file example
example: directory
ben@titan:~/some-path$ file blog
blog: directory
ben@titan:~/some-path$ inotifywait -rme attrib,modify,move,create,delete . --exclude '(log|[a-z]+.sqlite)'
In another terminal:
ben@titan:~$ cd some-path
ben@titan:~/some-path$ touch test.txt
ben@titan:~/some-path$ touch blog/test.txt
ben@titan:~/some-path$ touch example/test.txt
ben@titan:~/some-path$ rm test.txt
ben@titan:~/some-path$ rm blog/test.txt
ben@titan:~/some-path$ rm example/test.txt
Output:
inotifywait -rme attrib,modify,move,create,delete . --exclude '(log|[a-z]+.sqlite)'
Setting up watches. Beware: since -r was given, this may take a while!
Watches established.
./ CREATE test.txt
./ ATTRIB test.txt
./example/ CREATE test.txt
./example/ ATTRIB test.txt
./ DELETE test.txt
./example/ DELETE test.txt
Expected Output:
inotifywait -rme attrib,modify,move,create,delete . --exclude '(log|[a-z]+.sqlite)'
Setting up watches. Beware: since -r was given, this may take a while!
Watches established.
./ CREATE test.txt
./ ATTRIB test.txt
./example/ CREATE test.txt
./example/ ATTRIB test.txt
./blog/ CREATE test.txt
./blog/ ATTRIB test.txt
./ DELETE test.txt
./example/ DELETE test.txt
./blog/ DELETE test.txt
