How To Install incron on Fedora 36

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install incron on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install incron.

Install incron on Fedora 36 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 Fedora 36 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 Fedora 36

To uninstall only the incron package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove incron

incron Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/incron.conf
/etc/incron.d
/usr/bin/incrontab
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/89dbefee6cfeac059055f5f1e157e914c8d9af
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b/9399020ee933935f8d712a5bceca75c9d86b6a
/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

• incron website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install incron on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).