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Date:      Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:38:27 -0800
From:      Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu>
To:        "Chad Albert" <Chad.Albert@myhealthcarefirst.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Monitoring folder activity
Message-ID:  <20031203153827.366e5a95.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu>
In-Reply-To: <433CEE75B1339547BBB373B3406653840DFE34@hfmail01.sgf.healthcarefirst.med>
References:  <433CEE75B1339547BBB373B3406653840DFE34@hfmail01.sgf.healthcarefirst.med>

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On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 15:42:27 -0600
"Chad Albert" <Chad.Albert@myhealthcarefirst.com> wrote:

> I am in need of a way to trigger an action when a file is written to
> user's home directories.  I am sure there is a way to do this, but I
> don't know where to look.  What I want to do is allow users to sftp a
> file into their home directory, then once the file is written, I want
> a server side process to email or otherwise transfer the file to
> another location so that it can be processed with some third party
> tools by a Windows user.  Can anyone help me out?

Have a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/wait_on

"The wait_on command allows shell scripts to access the facilities
provided by kqueue(3). This allows scripts to detect files being added
to directories, data appended to files and many other things - all
without polling."

-Chris



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