Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I installed inotify and incrond to watch a directory and set the > job as '/mnt/dir IN_ATTRIB chmod 0660 $@/$#' which worked very well > except that as expected, IN_ATTRIB is to broad of a watch class as it > caused an enormous amount of contention with the filemonitor and/or > db server and the client side app was less than happy. Not to mention > top showed it working away like mad... > > Is there any way to look for permission changes only, or something else > that might work? > I used the example 2 in the inotifywait manpage as the starting point for my script. Using the close_write, create & move events worked well for me. Looked at incrond - seemed overkill/overcomplicated - chose not to use it. But if it's fighting with something else in the background trying to do the same thing - it going to be a circular battle. -- tkb