Running as daemon through cron (Ubuntu 15.10) about git-dude HOT 5 CLOSED

@holmboe haha, you're right 🙈

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@sickill it's ok, I take credit for everything @holmboe does anyways, so he can have this one 💃

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Hi @anobilisgorse!

Guess I'd share my way of approaching it.

Instead of creating a crontab job for this particular thing, which runs as soon as cron daemon starts. But especially when I don't want my little thing running when I'm not logged on, so I did it with a "startup application" in Ubuntu instead.

I've created ~/.git-dude/bin where I've put a simple script containing following

#!/bin/bash
#
# run-gd - Simple script to run git-dude on ubuntu login
#

watchdir=$(git config dude.watchdir)

if [ -n $watchdir ]; then
    git dude $watchdir  
fi

Then after that, I've added a "custom" startup application pointing to that script, which is started when I'm logging in.

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I like @holmboe's suggestion to run it as a service instead as a cron job 👍

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@sickill thanks but the props goes to my brother @rholmboe :)

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