Another options similar to this would be the new file system WatchService available in java 7: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/notification.html
Arcadius. On 15 March 2013 15:22, Michael Della Bitta <michael.della.bi...@appinions.com> wrote: > Niklas, > > In Linux, the API for watching for filesystem changes is called > inotify. You'd need to write something to listen to those events and > react accordingly. > > Here's a brief discussion about it: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4062806/inotify-how-to-use-it-linux > > > Michael Della Bitta > > ------------------------------------------------ > Appinions > 18 East 41st Street, 2nd Floor > New York, NY 10017-6271 > > www.appinions.com > > Where Influence Isn’t a Game > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Niklas Langvig > <niklas.lang...@globesoft.com> wrote: >> We have all our documents (doc, docx, pdf) on a linux file server (~8 000 >> 000 documents), is there a good way to update solr with documents that are >> added to the file server and deleted from the file server? >> In windows you could have a wmi script that would get noticed when a >> document has been removed or added and then do appropriate update in solr. >> >> Can this be solved somehow? >> >> Thanks >> Niklas
