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Old 01-11-2017, 04:06 PM   #1
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Hi guys

I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to make a script run on the kindle every time a particular file is changed (in this case deleted)?

I've seen incron and inotify, but no references to if either of them even exist for the kindle, let alone how to use them

any help would be appreciated.

thanks

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Hi guys

I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to make a script run on the kindle every time a particular file is changed (in this case deleted)?

I've seen incron and inotify, but no references to if either of them even exist for the kindle, let alone how to use them

any help would be appreciated.

thanks

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inotify is a kernel function and it should be included (I think dBus uses it, something does).
Put the blocker directory in and monitor it for delete (check the bundled Lua libraries, there might already be a scripted interface to inotify included).
There should be a eips or lipc call that will toss up a death's head image on the screen.
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inotify is a kernel function and it should be included (I think dBus uses it, something does).
Put the blocker directory in and monitor it for delete (check the bundled Lua libraries, there might already be a scripted interface to inotify included).
There should be a eips or lipc call that will toss up a death's head image on the screen.
thanks for the quick reply, and the useful info, I've never used Lua, I'll have a look, Although, I'm tempted to see if there are inotify bindings for python, since thats my main programming language (although, my 4th best, vb.net, haskal and cobol are better, but python is more portable)

a death head image might be a bit overkill lol. I was going with something more subtle, such as a log file lol
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A lot of the Kindle's scripting is in Lua.
And of course, the Kindles need Lua installed because the window manager (Awesome) is programed with Lua (it isn't Java).

So if you dig around in */bin, */sbin you will find working examples.

Ah, python is only pre-installed in the factory images, not in the customer images.
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Id noticed about python... still, had a look at lua and i recon I can work with it, no harder than some of my other languages. I could write haskel for the kindle, but I really cant be bothered to work out the cross compile tool chain... lol

Thanks for the tips
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