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11-19-2008, 07:11 PM
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incron experiences - what do you think?
I recently started playing with incron as a possible solution to a couple of issues I have, and I was wondering how many people use it and what the experience has been like.
The reason I ask, is I'm pretty experienced with cron, but I must say, I find incron a little intermittent in it's workings. I'm not sure if it's me or incron, hence the question.
Anyway, any feedback welcome.
Last edited by billymayday; 11-19-2008 at 08:44 PM.
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11-20-2008, 03:51 AM
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That is a little vague. I use fcron (for what that is worth):
http://fcron.free.fr/description.php
If that doesn't help please state your problem with a detailed description.
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11-20-2008, 04:07 AM
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It was meant to be vague, and incron is not a vixie cron replacement, it is sensitive to inode changes.
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11-20-2008, 04:38 AM
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One thing I have worked out over the course of this evening is the sensitivity to whitespace.
I had an entry
Code:
/target IN_CREATE /home/user/scripts/target.sh
that caused
Code:
cannot exec process: No such file or directory
Whereas removal of the second space between IN_CREATE and the script fixed that particular problem. ie using
Code:
/target IN_CREATE /home/user/scripts/target.sh
I can't see anything relating to this in the man page.
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11-20-2008, 11:17 AM
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I'd guess(!) it is related to this:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/internalvariables.html
and then search the document for "IFS" (internal field separator).
But it doesn't really answer why the error occurs.
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