Installs the incron package and starts the incrond service.

Incron is an "inotify cron" system. It consists of a daemon and a table manipulator. You can use it a similar way as the regular cron. The difference is that the inotify cron handles filesystem events rather than time periods.

More information about incron

• default['incron']['allowed_users'] is an array of users allowed, defaults to ["root"]
• default['incron']['denied_users'] is an array of users denied, defaults to []
• default['incron']['editor'] is the editor user editing a job via command line, defaults to vim
• default['incron']['service_name'] is the name of the system service, defaults to incron on debian and incrond on rhel platforms

This will install the incron package and start the service.

This resource helps you create a system incron table.

incron_d "notify_home_changes" do
  path "/home"
  mask "IN_MODIFY"
  command "/usr/local/bin/abcd"
end

More information about syntax

This resource helps you manage the allow and deny list for incron.

incron_user "root" do
  action :allow
end

License: MIT

Author: David Radcliffe

Contributor: Salvatore Poliandro III