This is a Docker container for triggering a command based on changes to a monitored directory. Multiple monitors can be set up for different directories.
This docker image is available as a trusted build on the docker index.
Run:
sudo docker run --name=inotify-command -d -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime -v /config/dir/path:/config:rw -v /dir/path:/dir1 coppit/inotify-command
To check the status, run:
docker logs inotify-command
When the container detects a change to a directory, it will invoke the specified command. There are different parameters for controlling how frequently the command runs in response to changes.
When run for the first time, a file named sample.conf will be created in the config dir, and the container will exit. Rename this file, then edit it, customizing how you want the command to run. For example, you might want to increase the stabilization time and/or minimum period to avoid running the command too frequently.
Copy the config file to set up multiple monitors. Be sure to also map the appropriate dir1/dir2/etc. to directories on the host. Up to 20 directories can be monitored. If your commands need to write to directories, you can also configure them to be used that way as well.
After creating your conf files, restart the container and it will begin monitoring.
If your command writes to the directory, you may want to use the UMAP and GMAP environment variables to update user IDs and group IDs inside the container so that they match those of the host. For example, if your command is chown -R nobody:users /dir1, then you'll want to make sure that the "nobody" user in the container has the same ID as in the host. You can set the UMAP environment variable to the value specified by echo nobody:`id -u nobody`:`id -g nobody` . Similarly, to remap the primary group for the "nobody" user, you would set GMAP to the value specified by echo `id -gn nobody`:`id -g nobody` .
You can specify multiple users or groups to update by separating them with spaces in the UMAP and GMAP variables. For example, these -e arguments to the docker run command will update the "nobody" and "www" users, as well as the "users" and "wheel" groups:
-e UMAP="nobody:99:100 www:80:800" -e GMAP="users:100 wheel:800"
For commands that create files without an explicit user or group name, you may want to set the USER_ID, GROUP_ID, and UMASK in the config file. For example, if your command is echo foo > /dir1/foo.txt, then by default the file will be created as the "root" user of the container. If you want it to be created with the user ID and group ID of "nobody" in the host, you would set these config values to the output of id -u nobody and id -g nobody in the host.
Similarly, you may want to set the UMASK to match the host. As root you can run su -l nobody -c umask on the host to determine the umask for the "nobody" user. The UMASK config value must be specified in octal, such as 0022.
This example is to run a permissions-repairing utility whenever there's a change in the directory:
WATCH_DIR=/dir2
SETTLE_DURATION=5
MAX_WAIT_TIME=30
MIN_PERIOD=30
COMMAND="/root/newperms /dir2"
# Need to run as root to have the authority to fix the permissions
USER_ID=0
GROUP_ID=0
UMASK=0000
# This is important because chmod/chown will change files in the monitored directory
IGNORE_EVENTS_WHILE_COMMAND_IS_RUNNING=1
USE_POLLING=no
Since the newperms utility does an explicit "chown -R nobody:users", we need to use the UMAP and GMAP environment variables to update the user and group in the container so that it will match the host. For example:
docker run -e UMAP=nobody:99:100 -e GMAP=users:100 --name=inotify-command -d -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime -v /config/dir/path:/config:rw -v /dir/path:/dir2:rw -v /usr/local/sbin/newperms:/newperms coppit/inotify-command
This example tells SageTV to rescan its imported media when the media directory changes:
WATCH_DIR=/dir1
SETTLE_DURATION=5
MAX_WAIT_TIME=05:00
MIN_PERIOD=10:00
COMMAND="wget -nv -O /dev/null --auth-no-challenge http://sage:frey@192.168.1.102:8080/sagex/api?c=RunLibraryImportScan&1="
# User and group don't really matter for the wget command. But we need to specify them in the config file.
USER_ID=0
GROUP_ID=0
UMASK=0000
IGNORE_EVENTS_WHILE_COMMAND_IS_RUNNING=0
USE_POLLING=no
We don't need to ignore events while the command is running because the wget command is a "fire and forget" asynchronous operation. We also don't need to use UMAP or GMAP.