Re: inotify-enabled apps [was: inotail]

[Ralf Ertzinger <fedora camperquake de>]

Hi.

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:01:42 -0500, Dave Jones wrote

> That sounds bizarre. Why would it need to poll for file changes at
> all? It would be more logical if crontab(1) told crond that
> modifications were made after it gets run.

Which does not solve the case of changes to the cron system made
without crontab.

But If you change cron files in a frequency that inotify becomes a
solution then you are solving the wrong problem, anyway, IMHO.