What is wrong with my Watcher (incron-like) daemon?

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Published on 2012-09-22T18:34:08Z Indexed on 2012/09/22 21:39 UTC
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I have installed Watcher this way: both watcher.py and watcher.ini are located in /etc I also installed pyinotify and it does work when I use python -m pyinotify -v /var/www

However, I want to use the daemon and when I start watcher.py, I get weird lines on my watcher.log (see below). I also included my watcher.ini file.

Note: I have the latest version of Python. The watcher.py can be found here

What is wrong with what I did? Also, do I really need pyinotify? Thanks a lot for your help

watcher.ini:

[DEFAULT]
logfile=/var/log/watcher.log
pidfile=/var/run/watcher.pid

[job1]
watch=/var/www
events=create,delete,modify
recursive=true
command=mkdir /home/mockfolder ## just using this as test

watcher.log:

2012-09-22 04:28:23.822029 Daemon started
2012-09-22 04:28:23.822596 job1: /var/www
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/etc/watcher.py", line 359, in <module>
    daemon.start()
  File "/etc/watcher.py", line 124, in start
    self.run()
  File "/etc/watcher.py", line 256, in run
    autoadd   = self.config.getboolean(section,'autoadd')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 368, in getboolean
    v = self.get(section, option)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 618, in get
    raise NoOptionError(option, section)
ConfigParser.NoOptionError: No option 'autoadd' in section: 'job1'

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