That sound like it is exactly what I need, Thanks!
-- Chad -----Original Message----- From: Chris Pressey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 5:38 PM To: Chad Albert Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Monitoring folder activity On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 15:42:27 -0600 "Chad Albert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am in need of a way to trigger an action when a file is written to > user's home directories. I am sure there is a way to do this, but I > don't know where to look. What I want to do is allow users to sftp a > file into their home directory, then once the file is written, I want > a server side process to email or otherwise transfer the file to > another location so that it can be processed with some third party > tools by a Windows user. Can anyone help me out? Have a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/wait_on "The wait_on command allows shell scripts to access the facilities provided by kqueue(3). This allows scripts to detect files being added to directories, data appended to files and many other things - all without polling." -Chris _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"