[CentOS] Event scheduling

[mike.redan at bell.ca]

> 
> Sure I understand that, but If I wanted it to be within 15 
> seconds response, I'd have to check 4times x 60 seconds x 60 
> minutes x 24 hours per day.  Kind of a waste for a file that 
> may or may not be transmitted each day.
> 
> I was thinking that perhaps there was something that would 
> monitor the SYSLOG and could trigger jobs (scripts) based on 
> a syslog entry.
> 

You could use syslog-ng, and some verbose logging on your FTP daemon.
Setup a filter to either trigger based on a file transfer, or based on a
specific file name. based on that filter, syslog-ng can launch a
program, or send data to a pipe that could be picked up by a simple
daemon...

The syslog-ng FAQ has some good examples.

Mike