Am 07.04.2016 um 20:11 schrieb Florian Lindner: > Hello, > I want to have a unit that monitors a path and commits automatically to > git whenever something changes. It usually works, like that: > > # cat git-commit@.service > [Unit] > Description=Automatic commit for %f > > [Service] > Type = oneshot > Nice = 10 > > # git returns 1 if there is nothing to commit > SuccessExitStatus=1 > > WorkingDirectory = %f > ExecStart = /usr/bin/git add --all . > ExecStart = /usr/bin/git commit -a -m "Automatic commit." > > > # cat git-commit@.path > [Unit] > Description = Path monitor for %f > > [Path] > PathChanged = %f > > [Install] > WantedBy = multi-user.target > > It basically works but has two issues: > > 1) The path unit does not seem to monitor the path recursively, therefore I > don't get a commit when a file in a subdirectory changes > > 2)Sometimes the commit fails, like when an application pushes files to > quickly into the directory: > > Failed to start Automatic commit for /etc. > git-commit@etc.service: Start request repeated too quickly > > or when files vanish before they are commited. > > This is usally not a problem, and I just want to restart it (after a short > delay) Setting Restart=on-failure on a Type=oneshort unit does not work > git-commit@etc.service: > > Service has Restart= setting other than no, which isn't allowed for > Type=oneshot services. Refusing. > > Any idea how to address these two issues? > > Thanks! > Florian
Hi Florian, for this I normally use https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd, which can do this recursivly. In my use case I sign packages this way after building. Regards _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
