pyinotifyd

A daemon to monitore filesystems events with inotify on Linux and execute tasks, which can be Python functions or shell commands.

Dependencies

• pyinotify

Installation

• Install pyinotifyd with pip.

pip install pyinotifyd

• Modify /etc/pyinotifyd/config.py according to your needs.

Global configuration

The config file is written in Python syntax. pyinotifyd reads config options from a dictionary named pyinotifyd_config. This is the default configuration:

pyinotifyd_config = {
    "watches": [],
    "loglevel": logging.INFO,
    "shutdown_timeout": 30
}

Global options:

• watches List of Watches, description below.
• loglevel Set the loglevel, you may use every available loglevel of the Python logging framework.
• shutdown_timeout Timeout to wait for pending tasks to complete when shutdown.