Questions tagged [inotify]
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Monitor and execute with inotifywait but do it in a queue
I have a rtorrent + rutorrent setup which will move downloaded torrent content to ~/rtorrent/completed using autotools plugin. Inotifywait in background checks any new files that appears on ~/rtorrent/...
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before changed files inside folders, need to backup folders recursively different location [closed]
I have some files in specific location, i want to monitor the changes(read,write,execute permissions, ownership changes,attribute changes) inside the folders on time to time.
I have a requirement ...
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Split behaving weird in bash
Trying to use split with inotifywait which basically splits the file when the file is created from ftp-server.
#!/bin/bash
TARGET=/home/test-directory/incoming
SPLITTED=/home/test-directory/...
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Inotifywait not working on folders mounted via fstab
I'm trying to watch a folder via inotifywait which is mounted via fstab and originally located on an extern NAS. Inotifywait is reacting on any change done by SFTP-Connection or directly via terminal, ...
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Reliability of inotifywait loop
I have of bash script with a loop watching a directory recursively:
while true
do
if path=`inotifywait -q -r -e create --format %w%f $watchpath`; then
#modify file
fi
done
If I'm not ...
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Do inotify watches automatically stop when a program ends?
Per man 7 inotify, there are a limited number of inotify instances (/proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances) and watches (/proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches). If inotify is set up using ...
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inotify stops reporting events
I am using inotify in a program written in C; it closely follows the example in man 7 inotify. The steps are essentially:
/* setup */
int fd = inotify_init1(IN_NONBLOCK);
int wd = inotify_add_watch(...
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What is exactly difference between INotify max_user_instances and max_user_watches?
After reading some articles on the internet I am a little lost in understanding the difference between INotify max_user_instances and max_user_watches.
From official Linux man:
/proc/sys/fs/...
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Use inotifywait to monitor folders and run script on a file when found
I am hoping someone could help me out. I am using a script that when pointed at a certain file in a folder, will generate a json file in that same folder. Below is the command used to run the script ...
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Process waiting for input from other process
I need to have a mechanism wherein 2 process should communicate.
Process A will do some job and wait for input [file path] from another process B. Each time Linux machine is rebooted this should ...
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Continuously detect a change of chksum of files under folder with inotify-tools [duplicate]
I just installed inotify-tools.
I would like to continuously detect change of chksum of files under folder /path
Once a change was detect ( under /path ) then it will print
echo “chksum of files ...
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How can I find what a process is trying to watch using strace, lsof, and fdinfo?
I have a process (the NewRelic infra agent) that is hung on a RHEL 7, xfs filesystem host. I'm thinking that it's trying to watch a file or maybe a socket that another process already has in use.
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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. ...
