inotify invalid option

[hemna]

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What happened

I just installed inotify-tools on my qidi plus 4, which is debian buster based (end of life). I updated my /etc/apt/sources.list to point to archive to get the system to pull the latest from debian to install inotify.

I bounced the klipper-backup-filewatch.service and it fails.

Oct 29 14:58:30 mkspi systemd[1]: klipper-backup-filewatch.service: Succeeded.
Oct 29 15:58:24 mkspi systemd[1]: Started Klipper Backup Filewatch Service.
Oct 29 15:58:25 mkspi env[4667]: inotifywait: invalid option -- 'P'

What did you expect to happen

it should work?

How to reproduce

install inotify-tools install the backup service check status

Debug

mks@mkspi:/etc/apt$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
mks@mkspi:/etc/apt$ sudo systemctl restart klipper-backup-
klipper-backup-filewatch.service  klipper-backup-on-boot.service
mks@mkspi:/etc/apt$ sudo systemctl restart klipper-backup-filewatch.service
mks@mkspi:/etc/apt$ sudo systemctl restart klipper-backup-on-boot.service
mks@mkspi:/etc/apt$ systemctl status klipper-backup-filewatch.service
● klipper-backup-filewatch.service - Klipper Backup Filewatch Service
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/klipper-backup-filewatch.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

Oct 29 14:58:29 mkspi systemd[1]: Started Klipper Backup Filewatch Service.
Oct 29 14:58:30 mkspi env[1499]: /home/mks/klipper-backup/utils/filewatch.sh: line 22: inotifywait: command not found
Oct 29 14:58:30 mkspi systemd[1]: klipper-backup-filewatch.service: Succeeded.
Oct 29 15:58:24 mkspi systemd[1]: Started Klipper Backup Filewatch Service.
Oct 29 15:58:25 mkspi env[4667]: inotifywait: invalid option -- 'P'
Oct 29 15:58:25 mkspi systemd[1]: klipper-backup-filewatch.service: Succeeded.

Additional information

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[hemna]

mks@mkspi:/etc/apt$ inotifywait --help
inotifywait 3.14
Wait for a particular event on a file or set of files.
Usage: inotifywait [ options ] file1 [ file2 ] [ file3 ] [ ... ]
Options:
        -h|--help       Show this help text.
        @<file>         Exclude the specified file from being watched.
        --exclude <pattern>
                        Exclude all events on files matching the
                        extended regular expression <pattern>.
        --excludei <pattern>
                        Like --exclude but case insensitive.
        -m|--monitor    Keep listening for events forever.  Without
                        this option, inotifywait will exit after one
                        event is received.
        -d|--daemon     Same as --monitor, except run in the background
                        logging events to a file specified by --outfile.
                        Implies --syslog.
        -r|--recursive  Watch directories recursively.
        --fromfile <file>
                        Read files to watch from <file> or `-' for stdin.
        -o|--outfile <file>
                        Print events to <file> rather than stdout.
        -s|--syslog     Send errors to syslog rather than stderr.
        -q|--quiet      Print less (only print events).
        -qq             Print nothing (not even events).
        --format <fmt>  Print using a specified printf-like format
                        string; read the man page for more details.
        --timefmt <fmt> strftime-compatible format string for use with
                        %T in --format string.
        -c|--csv        Print events in CSV format.
        -t|--timeout <seconds>
                        When listening for a single event, time out after
                        waiting for an event for <seconds> seconds.
                        If <seconds> is 0, inotifywait will never time out.
        -e|--event <event1> [ -e|--event <event2> ... ]
                Listen for specific event(s).  If omitted, all events are
                listened for.

Exit status:
        0  -  An event you asked to watch for was received.
        1  -  An event you did not ask to watch for was received
              (usually delete_self or unmount), or some error occurred.
        2  -  The --timeout option was given and no events occurred
              in the specified interval of time.

Events:
        access          file or directory contents were read
        modify          file or directory contents were written
        attrib          file or directory attributes changed
        close_write     file or directory closed, after being opened in
                        writable mode
        close_nowrite   file or directory closed, after being opened in
                        read-only mode
        close           file or directory closed, regardless of read/write mode
        open            file or directory opened
        moved_to        file or directory moved to watched directory
        moved_from      file or directory moved from watched directory
        move            file or directory moved to or from watched directory
        create          file or directory created within watched directory
        delete          file or directory deleted within watched directory
        delete_self     file or directory was deleted
        unmount         file system containing file or directory unmounted

[Staubgeborener]

You are running inotifywait 3.14 instead of the latest release inotifywait 4.23.9.0 (source). The current version supports -P:

user@voron:~ $ inotifywait --help
inotifywait 4.23.9.0
Wait for a particular event on a file or set of files.
Usage: inotifywait [ options ] file1 [ file2 ] [ file3 ] [ ... ]
Options:
        -h|--help       Show this help text.
        @<file>         Exclude the specified file from being watched.
        --exclude <pattern>
                        Exclude all events on files matching the
                        extended regular expression <pattern>.
                        Only the last --exclude option will be
                        taken into consideration.
        --excludei <pattern>
                        Like --exclude but case insensitive.
        --include <pattern>
                        Exclude all events on files except the ones
                        matching the extended regular expression
                        <pattern>.
        --includei <pattern>
                        Like --include but case insensitive.
        -m|--monitor    Keep listening for events forever or until --timeout expires.
                        Without this option, inotifywait will exit after one event is received.
        -d|--daemon     Same as --monitor, except run in the background
                        logging events to a file specified by --outfile.
                        Implies --syslog.
        -P|--no-dereference
                        Do not follow symlinks.
        -r|--recursive  Watch directories recursively.
        -I|--inotify    Watch with inotify.
        -F|--fanotify   Watch with fanotify.
        -S|--filesystem Watch entire filesystem with fanotify.
        --fromfile <file>
                        Read files to watch from <file> or `-' for stdin.
        -o|--outfile <file>
                        Print events to <file> rather than stdout.
        -s|--syslog     Send errors to syslog rather than stderr.
        -q|--quiet      Print less (only print events).
        -qq             Print nothing (not even events).
        --format <fmt>  Print using a specified printf-like format
                        string; read the man page for more details.
        --no-newline    Don't print newline symbol after
                        --format string.
        --timefmt <fmt> strftime-compatible format string for use with
                        %T in --format string.
        -c|--csv        Print events in CSV format.
        -t|--timeout <seconds>
                        When listening for a single event, time out after
                        waiting for an event for <seconds> seconds.
                        If <seconds> is zero, inotifywait will never time out.
        -e|--event <event1> [ -e|--event <event2> ... ]
                Listen for specific event(s).  If omitted, all events are
                listened for.

The Klipper-Backup install script downloads and builds inotify with the latest release with make. So no apt magic. Maybe this could help.

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