>>81756134inotify is a syscall api that you have to call to and poll for changes. It'd involve spinning up a long-running process to check when I boot. That's kind of a pain compared to the cron job I just set up.
>>81756647I started with Ubuntu back around 2007. I've tried all sorts of other distros over the years, but Debian is just nice. The vast majority of online help for Linux is centered around Ubuntu, and easily 99% of that also applies to Debian. These days that's much less of a problem for me, but when I was starting out years ago, that saved my life.
