Re: start-stop-daemon on an inotify script

[Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>]

Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:

> Hi all,
>
>
> (cross-post from here:
> http://superuser.com/questions/571416/start-stop-daemon-on-an-inotify-scripti)
>
>
>
> I am on debian squeeze.
>
> Consider this stripped down script (placed at
> /usr/local/bin/testinotify) around inotifywait:
>
> #+begin_src sh
>   #!/bin/bash
>   
>   WATCHDIR="/tmp/testinotify"
>   
>   inotifywait -mr --timefmt '%d/%m/%y %H:%M' --format '%T %w %f' \
>       -e modify -e create -e close_write \
>       "$WATCHDIR"  | while read date time dir file; do
>   
>       FILECHANGE=${dir}${file}
>   
>       chgrp users "$FILECHANGE"
>       chmod g+rw "$FILECHANGE"
>       if [ -d "$FILECHANGE" ]; then
>           chmod g+x "$FILECHANGE"
>       fi
>       echo "At ${time} on ${date}, file $FILECHANGE was chmodded" >> "$1"
>   done
> #+end_src
>
> If I run this "by hand" via
>   testinotify /var/log/testinotify.log
> everything works as expected.
>
> Here is my question: If I run this via start-stop-daemon as in
>   PIDFILE=/var/run/testinotify.pid &&
> DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/testinotify && LOGFILE=/var/log/testinotify.log
> && start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --pidfile "$PIDFILE"
> --make-pidfile --startas "$DAEMON" -- $LOGFILE &
> I get two instances of my script running.
>
>
> Why is that and how can I avoid that?
>
>
> The bad effect is, that killing the process with pid recorded by
> start-stop-script is not even stopping the inotifywait.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas


No one?

Is there anything, I should add to the question?

- Andreas