Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:56:32 -0600 From: "Chad Albert" <Chad.Albert@myhealthcarefirst.com> To: "Chris Pressey" <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Monitoring folder activity Message-ID: <433CEE75B1339547BBB373B3406653840DFE71@hfmail01.sgf.healthcarefirst.med>
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=20 That sound like it is exactly what I need, Thanks! -- Chad -----Original Message----- From: Chris Pressey [mailto:cpressey@catseye.mine.nu]=20 Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 5:38 PM To: Chad Albert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Monitoring folder activity 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=20 > user's home directories. I am sure there is a way to do this, but I=20 > don't know where to look. What I want to do is allow users to sftp a=20 > file into their home directory, then once the file is written, I want=20 > a server side process to email or otherwise transfer the file to=20 > another location so that it can be processed with some third party=20 > 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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