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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. It is build on top of the pyinotify library.
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## Requirements
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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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# List of watches, description below
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"watches": [],
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# Set the loglevel (see https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html#levels)
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"loglevel": logging.INFO,
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# Set the timeout to wait for pending tasks to complete during shutdown
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"shutdown_timeout": 30
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}
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```
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## Watch configuration
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A Watch is defined as a dictionary which contains the config options:
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```python
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{
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"path": "/tmp",
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"rec": True,
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"auto_add": True,
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"event_map": {}
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}
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```
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