S, Thxs for the explanation! (will just set up a cron job for the time being until i give it more thought)
-- Securely sent with Tutanota. Get your own encrypted, ad-free mailbox: https://tutanota.com 1 Aug 2019, 16:40 by [email protected]: > On 2019/08/01 17:32, [email protected] wrote: > >> hi guys, >> >> just wondering if mpd can be compiled with the auto-update enabled ? >> Currently after installing mpd binary I have to manually update my database >> when files are removed / added. Thxs for your time >> >> >> -- >> Securely sent with Tutanota. Get your own encrypted, ad-free mailbox: >> https://tutanota.com >> > > It's not a simple case of "enable flag and build it", this features uses > a Linux-specific interface (inotify) to monitor directories. > > It might be possible to convert to something using the BSD kqueue interface, > but this will use quite a lot of resources (a file descriptor for every > monitored file, not just directory), on even an average sized music > collection this is likely to run into kernel limits very easily .. >
