How To Install incron on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install incron
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is incron
This program is an “inotify cron” system. It consists of a daemon and a table manipulator. You can use it a similar way as the regular cron. The difference is that the inotify cron handles filesystem events rather than time periods.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install incron
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install incron.
Install incron on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install incron
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install incron
Install incron on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install incron
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install incron
How To Uninstall incron on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the incron
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove incron
incron Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/incron.conf
/etc/incron.d
/usr/bin/incrontab
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/30
/usr/lib/.build-id/30/a7375162400be911a4c722b481745ef4c630fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/bf77891d086280905d7afbf116ed398caa157b
/usr/lib/systemd/system/incrond.service
/usr/sbin/incrond
/usr/share/doc/incron
/usr/share/doc/incron/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/incron/README
/usr/share/doc/incron/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/incron
/usr/share/licenses/incron/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/incron/LICENSE-GPL
/usr/share/man/man1/incrontab.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/incron.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/incrontab.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/incrond.8.gz
/var/spool/incron
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install incron
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.