Am 17.02.21 um 10:26 schrieb Casper Ti. Vector: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 01:08:44PM +0530, billa chaitanya wrote: >> I am trying to start a service when a file/path is >> modified/touched/created.Do we have any mechanism in s6 that supports >> enabling a service up on monitoring a path? > > inotifyd (or something similar) + s6-svc (or s6-rc)?
You can also write your own specialised daemon with a simple shell script a la inotifywait -q -m ... | while true; do # get the next event: event=$(head -1) ... done I am using this method in a production system. Cheers Ben