Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:13:50 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Replacement for sysutils/wait_on Message-ID: <CAN6yY1uVCRB_dMErn48Jk1QOx_p0tW4=Lw9dCyu1jt5Ud-Jkwg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5322A8E6.4070001@netfence.it> References: <53223E44.10608@rcn.com> <5322A8E6.4070001@netfence.it>
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> 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
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