From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 14 17:13:51 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 321F8C4E for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:13:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-x22b.google.com (mail-pb0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c01::22b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 094AD658 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:13:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f43.google.com with SMTP id um1so2884807pbc.2 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:13:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=GjwoRTM1h8yzEnZ53Oey31rAW9rIsy1SLMNorXs3l4A=; b=q5vFrUK/xaWpL7WX3ZyccZKPs11ZKPGyckix06FNz0ryDsR3rsnYEgEGSsv0huKCn7 zbsjOhUAliRiUZH7UpnD+xOgOmD/Lkbv7heJ9PLhbeNgOROhhwTVLI5cycplNRNniUMp rb/B/WStwn3Xn7oJ1/xDLnbG0csW4xX1EBZbYSdGQBPEqMneBhc83aP0qHJFJh4H9cFc hLszQ48uc/u42E3ymUg2ZNznVoXJTmcHaAaagTCZXltULLCwVF4GRZ1VFlyRx1NwWxei KI2mhzXapMrwp4OmQNAJPzlePc0A2SuPLO/ngTMucQwADZdJ6drXsXLqed+o06/p6Isf LBLQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.76.68 with SMTP id i4mr10079652pbw.73.1394817230668; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:13:50 -0700 (PDT) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.66.0.164 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:13:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5322A8E6.4070001@netfence.it> References: <53223E44.10608@rcn.com> <5322A8E6.4070001@netfence.it> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:13:50 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: BHdmtpu39EV-pMSuhLgJaGir0Ng Message-ID: Subject: Re: Replacement for sysutils/wait_on From: Kevin Oberman To: Andrea Venturoli Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: FreeBSD Ports ML X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:13:51 -0000 On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > On 03/14/14 00:24, Robert Huff wrote: > >> Andrea Venturoli writes: >> >> I have a script which monitors a directory and wakes up as soon >>> as a new file appears. I'm using sysutils/wait_on for this, but >>> this port expired a few days ago. >>> >>> Is there a drop in replacement? Any other suggestion? >>> >> >> Isn't there a component of the GNOME suite which does this? >> > > Which component? > > I probably forgot to say this, but this is on a server with no X. > I'd happily avoid installing whole GNOME if I can, but if this works > without graphics it might be worth investigating. > > The port in Gnome that monitors directories is devel/gamin. It is NOT dependent on the installation of gnome. It has a fairly short list of dependencies, none X related in any way: pcre-8.34 icu-52.1 glib-2.36.3_2 gettext-0.18.3.1 python27-2.7.6_4 perl5-5.16.3_7 libffi-3.0.13_1 -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com