Infinite loop when invoke "ls -la" in watched directory #8

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1. bertalanimre commented on Oct 19, 2017

   

   bertalanimre

   on Oct 19, 2017

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   I personally think you install watcher the wrong way. Why do you create a separate ini file on the first place? Here is how I use watcher:

   • Install python 2.7 and inotify
   • Clone watcher to opt folder
   • Sofl-link the included ini file to /etc
   • Soft-link the included wathcer.py to /bin as watcher
   • Create a proper log folder in var
   • Edit the ini file according to my needs
   • Starting watcher
   • Checking if it works fine

   sudo yum install python python-inotify
   sudo git clone https://github.com/splitbrain/Watcher.git /opt/watcher
   sudo ln -s /opt/watcher/watcher.ini /etc/watcher.ini
   sudo ln -s /opt/watcher/watcher.py /bin/watcher
   sudo mkdir /var/log/watcher
   sudo vim /etc/watcher.ini
   sudo watcher start
   sudo tail -f /var/log/watcher.log
   

   Also, if you use multiple bash command, I suggest using && (and-and) instead of ; (semicolon). This way, if one of the commands fails, the remaining commands won't try to run and ruin the system possibly. Or if you want to have a more complex command list, use a bash script and run that with watcher.

   My thoughts about your command is that you specified "close" operation to be executed and made the command recursive. Close means any operation that accesses a file and then leaves it. So you basically told watcher to watch the whole test folder in your tmp folder and whenever an application accesses a file and then closes it, the command should be executed. I don't know what is your exact project, but maybe you wish to have a create,modify instead of close as events watched for.