[ale] file system trigger

[Fletch]

>>>>> "Tommie" == Tommie M Jones <tj at atlantageek.com> writes:


[...]

    Tommie> I have files being ftped into a directory.  For some
    Tommie> reason they do not want to use a cron job to watch and
    Tommie> wait for files.

    Tommie> What they want is for a job to sleep and then wakeup every
    Tommie> so often.

        `We want something that periodically executes a task, just
like cron.  But we don't want to use cron.'


        Send that as a sugguestion for CDW's next round of `I'm off to
crash the server / We approved all of the projects but not the budgets'
series of commercials.


    Tommie> Is there to signal a job to run whenever a file appears in
    Tommie> a directory.

        Naitively, no.  But check this out.

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/


        And that's probably going to require kernel rebuilding, so
explain that they're much better off just using cron unless the
startup time of whatever's diddling with the files is non-trivial.

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