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NAME
incrond - inotify cron (incron) daemon
SYNOPSIS
incrond [ -f file ] [ -n | -k ]
DESCRIPTION
The inotify cron daemon (incrond) is a daemon which monitors filesystem events and exe-
cutes commands defined in system and user tables. It's use is generally similar to
cron(8).
incrond 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 nohup(1). It can
be run on foreground too.
incrond uses two categories of tables incrontab(5). System tables are usually located in
/etc/incron.d and are maintained outside of incron (e.g. by various applications). These
tables work on root rights level and thus any file may be watched and commands are exe-
cuted with root privileges.
User tables are located in /var/spool/incron by default and have names based on user
accounts. These tables use users' access rights, thus only files which the user may access
are watched. Commands are executed with users' privileges.
If a table (incrontab) is changed incrond reacts immediately and reloads the table. Cur-
rently running child processes (commands) are not affected.
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. Location of these files can be changed in the
configuration.
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
loopable=true is specified. Please beware of this and do not allow permission for use
incron to unreliable users.
-n (or --foreground) option causes running on foreground. This is useful especially for
testing, debugging and optimization.
-k (or --kill) option terminates a running instance of incrond.
-f <FILE> (or --config=<FILE>) option specifies another location for the configuration
file (/etc/incron.conf is used by default).
Environment variables: For system tables, the default (the same as for incrond itself)
environment variable set is used. The same applies to root's table. For non-root user
tables, the whole environment is cleared and then only these variables are set: LOGNAME,
USER, USERNAME, SHELL, HOME and PATH. The variables (except PATH) take values from the
user database (e.g. /etc/passwd). The PATH variable is set to
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin.
SEE ALSO
incrontab(1), incrontab(5), incron.conf(5)
BUGS
incrond is currently not resistent against looping.
AUTHOR
Andreas Altair Redmer <altair.ibn.la.ahad.sy AT gmail.com> (please report bugs to
https://github.com/ar-/incron/issues ). Lukas Jelinek <lukas AT aiken.cz>.
COPYING
This program is free software. It can be used, redistributed and/or modified under the
terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2.
Lukas Jelinek 0.5.12 incrond(8)
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