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I found this cool tool called "incron." I think it will be a great productivity booster, but I am having issues getting it to run.

sudo apt-get install incron
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Adding group `incron'
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sudo usermod -a -G incron myname # no luck

incrontab -e # user 'myname' is not allowed to use incron

This seems to be a pretty cut and dry problem -- I should be able to get it to "just work"; however, it is not. Is there an easy way to get this running?

annahri
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    Try to re-login to your session. – annahri Oct 19 '20 at 22:35
  • @annahri I should state that I am on `wsl-2` (windows subsystem for linux 2). This is a dockerized ubuntu... perhaps there is something there? – Chris Oct 19 '20 at 22:37
  • I'll try rebooting when I get a chance – Chris Oct 19 '20 at 22:51
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    You don't need to reboot. Simply log out and log in. Then all your processes will have `incron` group membership, or (after reading `man newgrp`), `newgrp incron` and try `incrontab -e` again.. – waltinator Oct 20 '20 at 02:25
  • @waltinator thanks, yeah, reading the docs is something I'm doing now, but would not have known which doc to read. – Chris Oct 20 '20 at 15:05

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