On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 18:01 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:49:48PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > > Florin Andrei wrote: > > > Anybody planning to submit inotail to Extras? > > > > > > http://distanz.ch/inotail/ > > > > Hmm, that's not the only inotify-enabled version of a major application, > > it seems. > > > > http://incron.aiken.cz/ > > > > 1. About > > This program is the "inotify cron" system. It consists of a daemon and a > > table manipulator. You can use it a similar way as the regular cron. The > > difference is that the inotify cron handles filesystem events rather > > than time periods. > > That sounds bizarre. Why would it need to poll for file changes at all? > It would be more logical if crontab(1) told crond that modifications were > made after it gets run. > Dave, I believe you misunderstood. This is not actually a cron replacement. Instead, it allows you to trigger actions on filesystem modifications. E.g. we could get rid of all the ugly gtk-update-icon-cache calls in package %posts and instead have incron monitor /usr/share/icons/* and trigger the icon cache update in that way. -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
