I was just looking into inotify to reload nginx and various other services on conf changes. I guess I'll go with Watchman so I don't have to write a series of shell scripts. I considered guard ( https://github.com/guard/guard ) and Nodemon ( https://github.com/remy/nodemon ), but Watchman has less dependencies (doesn't require Ruby/Node). There's also Supervisor (Python) ( http://supervisord.org/ ), but I think that…
Not directly applicable but if you are using Salt to manage your servers you set it up to restart a service when certain files change with the watch requisite [1].
[1] - http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/states/requisites.html#require...