#!/bin/sh # Start/stop/restart the inotify cron daemon (incrond). # Sanity check. If /usr/sbin/incrond is missing then it # doesn't make much sense to try to run this script: if [ ! -x /usr/sbin/incrond ]; then printf "%s: no /usr/sbin/incrond found (or not executable); cannot start.\n" "$0" exit 1 fi # Check if incrond is running incrond_running() { ps axc | egrep -q " incrond$" } # Start incrond. incrond_start() { incrond_running && { echo "incrond is already running." } || { echo "Starting incrond: /usr/sbin/incrond" /usr/sbin/incrond } } # Stop incrond (/usr/sbin/incrond): incrond_stop() { incrond_running && { echo "Stopping incrond: /usr/sbin/incrond -k" /usr/sbin/incrond -k } || { echo "incrond is not running." } } # Restart incrond: incrond_restart() { incrond_stop incrond_start } case "$1" in 'start') incrond_start ;; 'stop') incrond_stop ;; 'restart') incrond_restart ;; 'status') incrond_running && { echo "incrond is running." } || { echo "No running incrond process." } ;; *) printf "usage:\n\t%s start|stop|restart|status\n" "$0" esac