Comments on: Watchman – A File and Directory Watching Tool for Changes

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 05:33:10 +0000

In reply to BK.

@BK,

Thanks for the tip, specified openssl-devel to the required packages…

By: BK

BK — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 03:50:18 +0000

----------- On RHEL/CentOS -----------

# yum install autoconf automake python-setuptools python-devel libssl-devel libtool 
# yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

you need to add "openssl-devel" for certain redhat. Else will hit below error when execute 'make':-

  CXX      thirdparty/jansson/libwmanjson_a-strbuffer.o
  CXX      thirdparty/jansson/libwmanjson_a-strconv.o
  CXX      thirdparty/jansson/libwmanjson_a-utf.o
  CXX      thirdparty/jansson/libwmanjson_a-value.o
  AR       libwmanjson.a
  CXX      watchman-ChildProcess.o
  CXX      watchman-ContentHash.o
ContentHash.cpp:13:25: fatal error: openssl/sha.h: No such file or directory
 #include 
                         ^
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [watchman-ContentHash.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/vagrant_data/watchman_build.2017-09-08T22:41:55Z/watchman'
make: *** [all] Error 2

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:38:39 +0000

In reply to Mike Lawrence.

@Mike

Wonderful! Many thanks for sharing.

By: Mike Lawrence

Mike Lawrence — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 12:53:36 +0000

In reply to Aaron Kili.

Surely! Here is what I am going to use as the trigger script, the folders can be whatever you need:
#!/usr/bin/bash


SOURCE=/root/lookatme

MIRROR=/root/mirrors/lookatme

ARCHIVE=/root/archives/lookatme

TIMESTAMP=`date +%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M:%S`
cd $SOURCE
RUNNING=`ps -ef | grep rsync | grep -v grep`

RESULT=$?
if [ $RESULT == 0 ];

then

  exit;

fi
for item in `rsync -a --out-format="%n" --dry-run $SOURCE/ $MIRROR/ | grep -E '[[:alnum:]]' | grep -v .*.swp`

do

  if [ -f $item ];

  then

    save=`echo $item | sed s#/#%#g`

    cp $item $ARCHIVE/$save.$TIMESTAMP

  fi

done

rsync -a $SOURCE/ $MIRROR/

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 08:35:07 +0000

In reply to Mike Lawrence.

@Mike

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. We are grateful.