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| 57 | luk | 1 | .TH "incrond" "8" "0.3.1" "Lukas Jelinek" "incron documentation" |
| 2 | .SH "NAME" |
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| 3 | incrond \- inotify cron (incron) daemon |
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| 5 | .SH "SYNOPSIS" |
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| 6 | \fBincrond\fR |
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| 7 | .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
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| 8 | The inotify cron daemon (\fIincrond\fR) is a daemon which monitors filesystem events and executes commands defined in user tables. It's use is generally similar to \fIcron\fR(8). |
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| 10 | \fIincrond\fR can be started from /etc/rc, /etc/rc.local and so on. It daemonizes itself (returns immediately) and doesn't need to be started with & and through \fInohup\fR(1). Running on foreground is currently not possible but it will be implemented in the future. |
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| 12 | \fIincrond\fR searches /var/spool/incron for \fIincrontab\fR(5) files named after user accounts. If a table (incrontab) is changed \fIincrond\fR reacts immediately and reloads the table. Currently running subprocesses (commands) are not affected. |
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| 14 | There are two files determining whether an user is allowed to use incron. These files have very simple syntax \- one user name per line. If /etc/incron.allow exists the user must be noted there to be allowed to use incron. Otherwise if /etc/incron.deny exists the user must not be noted there to use incron. If none of these files exists there is no other restriction whether anybody may use incron. |
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| 16 | The daemon itself is currently not protected against looping. If a command executed due to an event causes the same event it leads to an infinite loop unless a flag mask containing IN_NO_LOOP is specified. Please beware of this and do not allow permission for use incron to unreliable users. |
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| 17 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
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| 18 | incrontab(1), incrontab(5) |
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| 19 | .SH "BUGS" |
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| 20 | incrond is currently not resistent against looping. |
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| 21 | .SH "AUTHOR" |
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| 22 | Lukas Jelinek <lukas@aiken.cz> |
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| 23 | .SH "COPYING" |
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| 24 | This program is free software. It can be used, redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. |