Hi Jon, Oozie could handle this nicely. You may just specify a Oozie coordinator jobs. But if you don't have a Oozie server handy, cron jobs could also meet your needs.
Regards, -BaiGang On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Jonathan Coveney <jcove...@gmail.com>wrote: > I am not sure if this is the right listserv, forgive me if it is not. My > goal is this: monitor HDFS until a file is create, and then kick off a job. > Ideally I'd want to do this continuously, but the file would be create > hourly (with some sort of variance). I guess I could make a script that > would ping the server every 5 minutes or something, but I was wondering if > there might be a more elegant way? > > Thanks > Jon >
