This program is an "inotify cron" system. It consists of a daemon and a table manipulator. You can use it a similar way as the regular cron. The difference is that the inotify cron handles filesystem events rather than time periods. To start incrond automatically on system start, make sure that /etc/rc.d/rc.incrond is executable and put the following line to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local: [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.incrond ] && /etc/rc.d/rc.incrond start To stop incrond on system shutdown, add this line to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown: [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.incrond ] && /etc/rc.d/rc.incrond stop