incron is an "inotify cron" system. It works like the regular cron but is driven by filesystem events instead of time periods. It contains two programs, a daemon called "incrond" (analogous to crond) and a table manipulator "incrontab" (like "crontab").
| Tags | Filesystems Monitoring Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release adds includes to build correctly on GCC 4.4 and newer, fixes some type issues, improves the Makefile, fixes typos in various file, and implements EAGAIN in poll().


Release Notes: Spaces in event-related file names are now handled correctly. Crashing on "incrontab --user" has been fixed. The man pages and makefile have been slightly improved.


Release Notes: More "include" directives have been added to ensure better compiler compatibility. Help messages have been fixed. Some warnings related to unhandled failures have been fixed.


Release Notes: Supplementary group access list initialization has been added. A few "includes" have been added due to compatibility with GCC 4.3. Manual pages now contain an explanation of used symbols.


Release Notes: This version is based on inotify-cxx 0.7.2. It fixes compilation problems on Debian Sarge.