FILEWATCHERD(8) BSD System Manager's Manual FILEWATCHERD(8)NAMEfilewatcherd — run commands in response to file changes
SYNOPSISfilewatcherd [-dh] [-w delay_ms] watchtab
DESCRIPTIONfilewatcherd is a daemon inspired by cron, that run commands based on
file changes instead of time. In principle it is similar to incron, but
it's simpler, more limited, and does not depend on anything outside of
FreeBSD base.
watchtab describes which paths and what events to watch, and commands to
run when triggered.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported by filewatcherd:
-d, --foreground
Don't fork to background and log to stderr.
-h, --help
Display help text.
-w delay_ms, --wait delay_ms
Wait that number of milliseconds after watchtag changes before
reloading it.
SEE ALSOwatchtab(5)BSD October 19, 2015 BSD