I’m trying to set up syncthing-inotify on my mac. I downloaded the darwin_amd64 verison and followed the instructions to “Run and hide on unix in a screen”
screen -S inotify -dm ./syncthing-inotify
Later checking with screen -ls the previous command didn’t create a new screen. I also checked that after running the command the sync only happen on a rescan. Running ./syncthing-inotify -help gives a “Illegal instruction: 4” Error.
Should the binary be copied to a specific folder? I would be grateful for more detailed install instructions as the documentation is scarce.
Thank you all for developing this wonderful software
It’s a 15 inch Macbook Pro from 2011 running OS X 10.7.5.
I have also tested it on a mac running 10.8.5 and the issue isn’t present (The screen command creates a new screen as expected). Is there now a nice way to start at login and put the binary in a nicer folder?
This is somewhat off-topic, but I’m wondering how “inotify” works on non-Linux platforms. I thought that inotify was a Linux kernel feature. Does golang provide a cross-platform filesystem watcher that just happens to be called inotify?
This seems to be a thing with binaries built for OS X 10.8+ being run on 10.7. That OS is fairly old at this point… I’m guessing syncthing-inotify is linked against too new system libraries.
I don’t know off hand how to do the right thing in the Go build process - does the regular Syncthing binary work for you?
I’m guessing I’ll have to update the system, as I know nothing of building with go. What is the best practice for making syncthing-inotify start on login? Should I put it in /etc and add the screen command to bash_profile?