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# pyinotifyd
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A daemon to monitore filesystems events with inotify on Linux and execute tasks, which can be Python functions or shell commands.
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## Dependencies
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* [pyinotify](https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify)
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## Installation
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* Install pyinotifyd with pip.
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```sh
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pip install pyinotifyd
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```
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* Modify /etc/pyinotifyd/config.py according to your needs.
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## Global configuration
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The config file is written in Python syntax. pyinotifyd reads config options from a dictionary named **pyinotifyd_config**.
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This is the default configuration:
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```python
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pyinotifyd_config = {
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"watches": [],
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"loglevel": logging.INFO,
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"shutdown_timeout": 30
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}
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```
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Global options:
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* **watches**
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List of Watches, description below.
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* **loglevel**
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Set the loglevel, you may use every available loglevel of the Python logging framework.
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* **shutdown_timeout**
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Timeout to wait for pending tasks to complete when shutdown.
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