[CentOS] Reactive systems -- was: Event scheduling
R P Herrold
herrold at owlriver.com
Fri Feb 16 17:24:09 UTC 2007
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
> Okay, I know about 'cron' and 'at', but how do you schedule jobs
> (scripts) based on events.
>
> For instance: Run script xyz when file abcd.efg arrives via ftp?
Emit an event into a queue, and periodically wake up
and harvest the queue --
ls and diff can detect newly present files
so can find
procmail can trivially detect and fire off email related
enqueuing events
-- Russ Herrold
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