How To Install incron on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install incron on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install incron.
Install incron on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install incron using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install incron
Install incron on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the incron package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove incron
incron Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/incron.conf
/etc/incron.d
/usr/bin/incrontab
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/3d537c4dc68f2fad5238d570167717641fb5f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0/26e5586462418508a607cbe6962629bf750ef0
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.