Re(2): incrontab usage

2012-01-09 Thread peasthope
* From: Richard Hector * Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:42:28 +1300 > ... to catch new files, you'll need to monitor > the directory it will appear in. > > Unfortunately, my testing didn't get it working reliably either ... Now that it works, there is some documentation here. "http://car

Re(2): incrontab usage

2012-01-09 Thread peasthope
* From: Richard Hector * Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:42:28 +1300 > ... to catch new files, you'll need to monitor > the directory it will appear in. > > Unfortunately, my testing didn't get it working reliably either ... Now that it works, there is some documentation here. "http://car

Re (4): incrontab usage

2012-01-04 Thread peasthope
* From: Richard Hector * Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:42:28 +1300 > Unfortunately, my testing didn't get it working reliably either ... Try IN_CLOSE_WRITE rather than IN_MODIFY. In my cursory tests it works here. Thanks for suggesting the wrapper,... Peter E. -- Telephone 1

Re (3): incrontab usage

2012-01-03 Thread peasthope
From: Richard Hector Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:17:32 +1300 > I think you'll find that the command string is parsed directly by > incrond, not by a shell, so you don't get redirection. Try putting the > whole command in a shell script, and calling that. Yes that works; thanks. Also worth noti

Re: Re (2): incrontab usage

2012-01-03 Thread Richard Hector
On 03/01/12 11:12, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > The 2nd problem is more subtle. > peter@joule:~$ incrontab -l > /home/peter/test IN_MODIFY touch /home/peter/indicator 2>&1 > gives > root@joule:/etc# /usr/sbin/incrond -nf /etc/incron.conf > touch: cannot touch `2>&1': Permission denied > touch: ca

Re (2): incrontab usage

2012-01-02 Thread peasthope
From: Andrei Popescu Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:44:48 +0200 > Do you have anything in syslog? Nothing. > Did you try running incrond with --foreground? OK, that shows two problems. With peter@joule:~$ incrontab -l /home/peter/test IN_MODIFY touch indicator the result is root@joule:/etc

Re: incrontab usage

2012-01-02 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/01/12 12:45, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Moving on to more constructive efforts ... > > peter@joule:~$ incrontab -l > /home/peter/test IN_MODIFY touch ~/indicator 2>&1 > > Then according to my thinking, sending a fresh copy of test > to Joule using FTP, should trigger "touch ~/indicator".

Re: incrontab usage

2012-01-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 01 ian 12, 16:45:59, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Moving on to more constructive efforts ... > > peter@joule:~$ incrontab -l > /home/peter/test IN_MODIFY touch ~/indicator 2>&1 > > Then according to my thinking, sending a fresh copy of test > to Joule using FTP, should trigger "touch ~/indi

incrontab usage

2012-01-01 Thread peasthope
Moving on to more constructive efforts ... peter@joule:~$ incrontab -l /home/peter/test IN_MODIFY touch ~/indicator 2>&1 Then according to my thinking, sending a fresh copy of test to Joule using FTP, should trigger "touch ~/indicator". If there is no pre-existing indicator, then an empty file