On 12/26/15 7:09 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> I'm making a thumb drive automounter using inotifywait piped into my
> Python program, which detects the proper CREATES and DELETES and
> automounts and autoumounts accordingly.
>
> Here's what I thought the run script would look like (runit dialect):
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/bin/inotifywait /dev/disk | /usr/local/bin/automounter.py
>
> However, it was pointed out to me that if automounter.py crashed,
> inotifywait would keep spinning and shooting its voluminous stdout
> messages into the ether. And presumably the service wouldn't crash and
> restart.
>
> Is this doable in a way consistent with supervision suites?
>
> I completely understand that 95% of you think what I've suggested is a
> no-style kludge that shouldn't be done, and that I should use Python's
> inotify framework. This is a completely different discussion: I'm
> limiting my question to whether such a pipeline is, or can be made,
> consistent with things like daemontools-encore, s6, and runit.
I'm using rundeux from perp for exactly the same thing.
http://b0llix.net/perp/site.cgi?page=rundeux.8
On side there is inotifywait process and on the other the script that
processes the events. It works perfectly.
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Georgi Chorbadzhiyski | http://georgi.unixsol.org/ | http://github.com/gfto/
Received on Sun Dec 27 2015 - 06:34:46 UTC