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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Want to backup dirs on application start and close. Post 302965122 by zorrokan on Sunday 24th of January 2016 04:13:45 AM
Old 01-24-2016
Code Want to backup dirs on application start and close.

Hi

I want to write a script that will back up one directory if a certain application launches and then backs up another directory if that same application is closed down.

NFI where to start. It seems like cron isn't the tool for this because that is time based. I'm thinking I need something that is constantly running in the background looking for the process to begin/end, or, something in the applications own directory that is triggered when it runs/closes.

Any prod in the right direction greatly appreciated, also, ELI5.
 

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mlmmj-maintd(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   mlmmj-maintd(1)

NAME
mlmmj-maintd - maintenance for mlmmj maintained lists SYNOPSIS
mlmmj-maintd [-F] [-d | -L] /path/to/dir -d: Full path to directory with lists -L: Full path to list directory -F: Don't fork, performing one maintenance run only. DESCRIPTION
This is the program doing the maintenance for an mlmmj based mailing list. It will unsubscribe people who have bounced for long enough, send out bounce probes, resend mails that couldn't be delivered to relayhost, clean out stale requests for e.g. subscription, resend list mails and clean up leftover files etc. If a directory containing several lists exists, the -d can be used to specify this, making mlmmj-maintd perform a maintenance run in every listdir below the specified one. Only either -d or -L can be specified at the same time. It will run as a daemon, unless the -F switch is specified, in which case it just runs once. The -F option should be used when one wants to avoid running another daemon, and use e.g. cron to control it instead. In case cron is used, mlmmj-maintd should be run every 2 hours or so. An example crontab entry: 0 */2 * * * /usr/bin/mlmmj-maintd -F -L /path/to/list AUTHORS
This manual page was written by the following persons: Soren Boll Overgaard <boll@debian.org> (based on html2man output) Mads Martin Jorgensen <mmj@mmj.dk> mlmmj-maintd September 2004 mlmmj-maintd(1)
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