On 11/22/2010 10:44 AM, Andy Levy wrote:
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:36, Ludwig, Michael
<michael.lud...@delphi-mb.de> wrote:
From: Andrey Repin
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 5:11 PM
Any ideas of any software that can handle this.
You'd be surprised, but the very filesystem (in Unix/Linux at
least) support
trigger mechanism. All you need is to write appropriate filter.
I think one such mechanism for Linux is called inotify.
There should be similar facilities for Windows.
System.IO.FileSystemWatcher in the .NET Framework.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.filesystemwatcher.aspx
FSEvents on MacOS X 10.5 and up.
Of course, there is a low-level API, but I'm thinking of
something that allows you to write:
OnCreateFile: call somescript.cmd
OnCreateDir: perl someperl.pl
The generic name should be *file system event monitor*.
But I haven't used any.
Realistically, you probably don't need to kick off the job the instant
the filesystem changes - you'll at least want to wait until the file
transfer completes. I'd expect a scheduled job running from cron on
linux or the windows task scheduler checking for new files every few
minutes to work at least as well as your existing manual process and
avoid any OS/filesystem dependencies (i.e. it could run from linux
checking a smb/cifs mounted windows filesystem or the reverse if you want).
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Les Mikesell
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