Questions tagged [inotify]
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“Too many files” error, but no process exceeds maximum file limit
I am trying to open a file in a C process of mine, but it fails, and I see a "Too many files" error. So I checked all of my processes for how many files they were using, and none of the processes in /...
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Data partition and IntelliJ IDEA external file sync speed
I recently reconfigured the filesystem on my laptop so I can share my data with a second Linux. The Linux used in this matter is Fedora 28, 64-bit.
My disks are now laid out like so:
/dev/sda:
/dev/...
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Alert or execute script, only if config file shows not in production mode
I would like to test the software in development by running a particular script, say script file.ext. But I was told that I an not allowed to run the script if a config file, say file.conf, contains a ...
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lsyncd: big directories
My plan was to use lsyncd to synchronize a directory with about 1,5m files and 0,3m directories to another host. Performance is not most important.
After first tests I see that lsyncd uses inotify ...
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What is this `gmain` process with these unknown PIDs in my trace file?
Reading up on an answer to find out which process registered inotify watchers, I executed the following commands
echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/syscalls/...
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tail reopen file when directory changes
I've got a symlink pointing to the "latest" directory, and I want to tail a file in the latest directory, even if the symlink changes to a newly created directory. I often use tail -F for files and ...
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how to get the number of inotify watches in use
I use inotifywait for event trigger which put file.
When many files are watched by inotifywait, when max_user_watches is exceeded, the following error occurs.
Terminating since out of inotify ...
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finding a way to wait for an unknown named file to appear in a directory and then doing something with it
I have a dir called /media/simc/, I want to to set something up to monitor /media/simc/, and when a file is put in it (from this machine or any other on the network, it is a network mounted dir itself)...
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webpack dev server leading to freezing of the system
I was getting errors on using npm start in my react application. which goes like this ENOSPC system limit for file watcher reached
I updated my npm and node versions but still i was getting this ...
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Source of this error: udevd [ PID ]: inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/sda, 10) failed: operation not permitted
We have this log in our syslog:
udevd [ PID ]: inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/sda, 10) failed: operation not permitted
Why do we get this error and how do we solve it?
Our environment: Ubuntu 12.04; LXC;...
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inotifywait not working with Visual Studio Code
I tried to make myself a small shell script that would watch for file changes using inotifywait and copy modified/created files and delete deleted files to some destination folder (or rsync specific ...
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How would I use inotifywait to execute a command if a file in a directory is created, deleted or modified?
Here is the shell script I've got so far. I want it to check recursively, hence the following options:
-r for recursive
-m for monitoring
-e for event notification and tracking
For a reason unknown ...
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initifywait --exclude does not fire when there is at least one not excluded file
I am using this command to watch a directory:
inotifywait -r -e modify,create,delete --exclude ".*(\.(git|idea)|(.*(___jb_tmp___|___jb_old___)))" my-dir
However, it does not work like I intend. What ...
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Call a command, wait, then execute another command
This feels like a situation where I need to watch a stream (stdin), if a line comes in, wait a moment, then fire the command and wait some more.
Using a tool like pyinotify or fswatch, we can watch ...
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How to read only the last line of a live input stream in a while read loop
I have a very simple bash script that synchronizes data to a USB key as soon as new files appear. It is poorly written but it works, however I want to minimize CPU time so I used sleep but since I use ...
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Alternative to inotifywait which allows easy working on *.json files only
It seems that inotifywait works with exclude lists only.
I have seen the workarounds, but don't like them:
How to use inotifywait to watch a directory for creation of files of a specific extension
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How to process series of files once transfer complete
What I have
I have 2 servers. Lets call them sen.der and recei.ver.
Sender generates files; these files can range in size from a 20Kb to 30 Gb.
I've written a script that checks to see how big the ...
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How can I stop a running inotifywait from another script?
I have a script that starts up a perpetual inotifywait session (using the -m switch) that monitors a directory waiting for backup files to drop in and then moves them to another directory where they ...
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Have `xargs` run the arguments it's received every <maximum amount of time> instead of every `-n` arguments?
I am using fswatch and xargs to watch for file system changes, and run commands depending on which files are changing. fswatch prints the changed files to stdout, and xargs <my command> ...
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How to stop nginx sending status code partially written files to browsers? [closed]
I'm uploading video files to my Nginx server at /var/www/static.
The files are sent from a separate machine. Sometimes these are large files, but are typically sent via an internal network.
For ...
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Can't monitor Dropbox folder
I recently installed Dropbox on my computer running Debian 9.3. But it will not sync. When I mouse over the icon in the notification area of my toolbar, a message says...
Can't monitor Dropbox folder ...
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How can I terminate a process if a second inotify event occurs?
inotifywait -q -m -e close_write,create --recursive ../orgmode-parse-print |
while read -r filename event; do
echo $filename;
echo $event
sleep infinity;
done
The problem with the above ...
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Shell: straightforward if statement seems not working
I've written this shell script snippet:
while inotifywait -e modify $ENV_LOCATION/*.env
do
md5sum $ENV_LOCATION/*.env > ./checksums_optwo.md5
if [ -n "$(cmp ./checksums_opone.md5 ./...
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inotifywait exclude file types
I'm using inotifywait in a script and wondering if there is a way to exclude hidden files from being watched?
I can't seem to determine the regex pattern to exclude hidden files.
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Potential workaround to inotifywait can't produce NUL-delimited output
I'm currently writing a bash script that uses inotifywait to perform certain actions on a user-supplied list of files and directories.
It has come to my attention that unlike a lot of shell tools, ...
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Continuously transfer files to the server
I have linux client and linux server. Both are Ubuntu 16.04.
On the client I generated .txt files almost every second, and I want to transfer them to the server, so my question is: what is the best ...
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Removing files under ~5k
I have 12 directores:
/home/imp/hpt/boxes/110.110.2.0/
/home/imp/hpt/boxes/115.115.16.0
/home/imp/hpt/boxes/1.154.10.0/
/home/imp/hpt/boxes/44.100.0.0/
/home/imp/hpt/boxes/46.1.100.0/
/home/imp/hpt/...
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Failed to start Apply Kernel Variables
This is fragment of journalctl result:
Jan 09 12:37:26 Host systemd[1]: Starting Apply Kernel Variables...
Jan 09 12:37:26 Host systemd-sysctl[329]: Couldn't write '65536' to 'fs/inotify/...
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Inotify to duplicate the file from a directory that has been updated
I'm working on a system to backup logs.
I need to copy logs in an other path in order to backup. I found inotify (that i do absolutely not know) that should help me on this task but i'm not sure... I ...
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Shell script to monitor windows directory
I need shell script to monitor the windows shared drive directory for any new file from the linux box and process the new file for further validation.
I wrote the script using inotify-wait, but it ...
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What is mean of “not explicitly being listened” on manual page of inotifywait?
man inotifywait:
delete_self
A watched file or directory was deleted. After this event the file or directory is no longer being watched. Note that this event can
occur even if it is not ...
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Check whether a file is opened or not
I have a folder, inside of which there are a lot of files. I was looking for a way to check whether any file inside that folder has been opened or not. If it is open, I need to get notified. I know ...
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inotifywait not alterting when device created
This works perfectly:
$ inotifywait --event create ~/foo
Setting up watches.
Watches established.
/home/ron/foo/ CREATE bar
However, this just sits there when directory tun0 is created under /sys/...
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System unable to detect renamed/new files
Some months ago I realized when I am writing a new post on my blog (with Hugo), the feature to reload the contents as files changes stopped working.
I waited in order to see if it was a problem with ...
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Monitor a burst of events with inotifywait
I have a service which is sporadically publishing content in a certain server-side directory via rsync. When this happens I would like to trigger the execution of a server-side procedure.
Thanks to ...
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inotifywait and rsync is printing temporary file names
I am in the process of writing a bash script that will make a POST request to a remote server every time a new file is created in a directory. I use RSYNC to sync several directories to a main ...
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List current inotify watches (pathname, PID)
How do I get a list of:
Pathnames currently being watched by inotify, and
PID of the process watching
I ask because I have found that syncthing's inotify watches were preventing my disk from being ...
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inotifywait script to watch file indefinitely, and restart process needs advice
I'm trying to write a script that will restart a process when the application configuration file is written to, using inotify.
The script is supposed to act differently depending on which host it is ...
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systemd-path service not working
I have added a systemd service to monitor a path, but it is not working. I touched a .txt file under /tmp/test/, but it is not kicking in my service. I can't see "/tmp/testlog.txt" getting generated. ...
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What are the costs of increasing `/proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches` value?
In order to watch my home directory and all subdirectories recursively for 60 seconds:
$ inotifywatch -v -r -t 60 /path
You may get Failed to watch /path; upper limit on inotify watches reached! ...
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Edit inotifywait output in daemon mode
I've been making progress, but I'm not sure how to proceed from here. I'm using inotifywait with the -d (daemon) switch to output a file that lists the video files that are put into the watched folder....
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How to monitor whether a file was created?
I need to monitor if, for example, file /tmp/somefile123 was created after some events. I tried to use inotifywait but here is a problem:
# inotifywait -q -e create /tmp/somefile?*
Couldn't watch /...
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Unidirectional syncing/replicate large file incrementally
I have a binary file on a Linux server that is being actively appended by a process (written in C with a constantly open file handler and flushing non-ASCII buffer to this file). I would like to ...
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inotifywait to move a file after a user downloads it
I am about to loose my mind on this and note I am not a programmer but having to tackle since our programmers are to busy. We have an sftp server where a user downloads files from us. I need to be ...
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How to make a script run like a daemon waiting for changes in 2 files?
I am new to scripting, I made a script that reads 2 files and execute commands and as output a log file.
I want this script to run like a daemon and wait for changes in these 2 files to execute these ...
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inotifywatch: continue watch after file rotation
I'm trying to write a script that uses inotifywatch to watch for changes in a log file. If a specific message is written to the log file, it's supposed to trigger a certain function. The script ...
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Sync same directories between two linux servers
There are two RHEL 7.2 linux servers located in different places. Both have same directory structure. Requirement is to keep certain directories of both servers in sync, i.e any modification in ...
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How to use inotifywait to watch a directory for creation of files of a specific extension
I have seen this answer.
You should consider using inotifywait, as an example:
inotifywait -m /path -e create -e moved_to |
while read path action file; do
echo "The file '$file' ...
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How to imitate the output of a webcam by updating a jpg file?
I have a folder A in which every now and then new files appear. It may happen that there are no new files for an hour, but also that there are several new files each second. All files have a unique ...
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How to check if a Token is valid in iComet server?
I'm working on a notification system using iComet. I need to check if channel's token is valid before sending notifications.
