[ale] Systemd daemon take overs

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu May 21 19:40:53 EDT 2020


Cool! I'll add that to a non-system process. 

On May 21, 2020 11:27:17 AM EDT, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>inotify does that. It has been around 15+ years?
>Been using that for automatic recorded TV processing for over a decade.
>
>
>On Thu, 21 May 2020 10:30:58 -0400
>Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> A systemd feature that is rather helpful:
>> 
>> It can watch for changes to a file and then perform a scripted action
>> when it occurs.
>> 
>> Example: dual dhcp servers with no shared config file. So systemd on
>> each host watches the config. If one changes the script notifies the
>> other to stop watching for changes, rsync the files, then start
>> watching for changes.
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