Solved Filewatcherd fails to start (Bad file descriptor)

abdelilah · Oct 9, 2015

Hello everyone,

I installed filewatcherd in order to get file support like in incron, I coppied the default watchdog.sample but I get this error when I try to start the daemon :

Code:

Oct  9 18:06:51 famp filewatcherd: Error while waiting for a kevent: Bad file descriptor
Oct  9 18:14:49 famp root: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/filewatcherd: WARNING: failed to start filewatcherd

Can you please help me with this, thanks.

talsamon · Oct 9, 2015

I don't know filewatcherd, but

Bad file descriptor

is mostly something with permissions or more than one instance is started.

abdelilah · Oct 9, 2015

The root has access to the file :

Code:

root@famp:~ # ls /usr/local/etc/watchtab
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    50B Oct  9 21:24 /usr/local/etc/watchtab

filewatcherd does not even have proper man pages, can someone hep ?

tobik@ · Oct 9, 2015

What's in /usr/local/etc/watchtab?

abdelilah · Oct 9, 2015

Code:

#/root/wolverine delete  0.1     touch ${TRIGGER}

It wasn't commented before but it didn't start either.

abdelilah · Oct 13, 2015

Can someone help ? Thanks.

abdelilah · Oct 15, 2015

Hello guys, this issue is still alive and kicking can someone please help? Thanks a lot.

tobik@ · Oct 16, 2015

Maybe open a new issue in the upstream repository https://github.com/faelys/filewatcherd.

abdelilah · Oct 19, 2015

I have posted an issue on github, I'll keep you updated if I get an answer from Faelys.

abdelilah · Oct 20, 2015

Here is a full post on github https://github.com/faelys/filewatcherd/issues/2#issuecomment-149332808
another beta version has been release we are waiting for it's approval on the port tree so if someone could help with this :
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203881

Thanks for everyone who helped, the issue is not solved yet.

talsamon · Oct 20, 2015

Update today 3:54
http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/filewatcherd/

abdelilah · Oct 20, 2015

It works :

Code:

root@famp:/tmp # service filewatcherd start
Starting filewatcherd.
Watchtab "/usr/local/etc/watchtab" loaded successfully
root@famp:/tmp # service filewatcherd status
filewatcherd is running as pid 37187.
root@famp:/tmp #