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gitwatch as a service on FreeBSD
This script will start gitwatch using the rc system and has been tested on FreeBSD 12.1.
bash, git, and inotify-tools are required by gitwatch
sudo pkg install bash git inotify-tools
I installed gitwatch in /opt/gitwatch/bin to keep it separate from programs installed with ports/packages in /usr/local
sudo mkdir -p /opt/gitwatch/bin
# Install from source instructions from gitwatch repo
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/gitwatch/gitwatch.git
cd gitwatch
sudo install -b gitwatch.sh /opt/gitwatch/bin/
#
sudo chown -R root:wheel /opt/gitwatch
sudo chmod -R go=u-w /opt/gitwatch
Each target directory monitored by gitwatch needs a git repository. If there isn't an existing repository, create one by running git init in each target directory.
cd /etc
sudo git init
sudo git add .
sudo git commit -m 'Initial Creation'
#
cd /usr/local/etc
sudo git init
sudo git add .
sudo git commit -m 'Initial Creation'
Create the following script named gitwatch in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. The command and PATH variables may need to be adjusted if gitwatch.sh, bash, git, or inotifywait are installed in other directories.
#! /bin/sh
#
# Custom script for gitwatch
# falkenbe - 2020-08-02
#
# PROVIDE: gitwatch
# REQUIRE: DAEMON
#
# Add the following line to /etc/rc.conf to enable gitwatch:
#
#gitwatch_enable="YES"
#
# To set the directories gitwatch watches add the following line to
# /etc/rc.conf. Multiple targets can be separated by spaces
#
#gitwatch_targets="/etc /usr/local/etc /some/other/directory"
#
. /etc/rc.subr
name="gitwatch"
rcvar="gitwatch_enable"
start_cmd="${name}_start"
load_rc_config $name
: ${gitwatch_enable:=NO}
: ${gitwatch_targets:="/etc /usr/local/etc"}
: ${gitwatch_args:="-l 10"}
command="/opt/gitwatch/bin/gitwatch.sh"
command_interpreter='bash'
command_args="${gitwatch_args}"
# bash, git, and inotifywait must be on the PATH for gitwatch to work.
# all are in /usr/local/bin if installed from ports/packages.
PATH="${PATH}:/usr/local/bin"
gitwatch_start() {
# Start a gitwatch for each target
for TARGET in ${gitwatch_targets}; do
${command} ${command_args} "${TARGET}" >/dev/null &
done
}
run_rc_command "$1"
Add the following line to /etc/rc.conf
gitwatch_enable="YES"
The gitwatch rc script will monitor /etc and /usr/local/etc by default. To change which directories are watched, tune the gitwatch_targets variable in /etc/rc.conf:
gitwatch_targets="/etc /usr/local/etc /some/other/directory"
- Start:
sudo service gitwatch start - Stop:
sudo service gitwatch stop - Restart:
sudo service gitwatch restart - Get current status:
service gitwatch status