incrond Error - access denied on /home/*/abc/ events will be discarded silently

Question

I am getting following error on Ubuntu in the logs.

incrond Error - access denied on /home/*/abc/ events will be discarded silently

I am trying to monitor /home/*/abc/ can be anything.

Any ideas how to fix?

Answer 1

incron does not support glob on path expression.

From the man page:

where path is a directory or a file. Please note that incron is not able to watch files in sub directories of the directory that you have set, so only files in that directory will be observed.