[Cooker] Hunting out utility

2003-07-21 Thread Paul Dorman
Hi all, I've been hunting around the Net for a utility which automatically executes scripts whenever a file is dropped into a particular directory. I can't recall what it is called, so I feel that I have to ask you friendly folks. Hopefully it's a part of Mandrake, eh! :o) I'd like to create

Re: [Cooker] Hunting out utility

2003-07-21 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Dorman wrote: Hi all, I've been hunting around the Net for a utility which automatically executes scripts whenever a file is dropped into a particular directory. I can't recall what it is called, so I feel that I have to ask you friendly

Re: [Cooker] Hunting out utility

2003-07-21 Thread Gary L. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 July 2003 05:58 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: Paul Dorman wrote: Hi all, I've been hunting around the Net for a utility which automatically executes scripts whenever a file is dropped into a particular directory. I can't recall

Re: [Cooker] Hunting out utility

2003-07-21 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 05:48, Paul Dorman wrote: I've been hunting around the Net for a utility which automatically executes scripts whenever a file is dropped into a particular directory. I can't recall what it is called, so I feel that I have to ask you friendly folks. http://www.fwatch.org/ ?

Re: [Cooker] Hunting out utility

2003-07-21 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 07:34, Gary L. Greene wrote: The app is called dnotify. It's in MDK contribs. So it is! (-: See dnotify.txt in your (2.4.19 or later) kernel's Documentation/ directory to see how the syscall (actually a pair of ioctl()) works. It can't name the file which has changed, but

Re: [Cooker] Hunting out utility

2003-07-21 Thread Paul Dorman
Cheers Buchan, yeah, I noticed the same FM link (on a couple of occasions), but of course I neglected to bookmark it as a potentially useful utility. The files will be coming from Quark, running on a Mac. I wrote a quick script to do the conversion, and now all I need is to have it

Re: [Cooker] Hunting out utility

2003-07-21 Thread Paul Dorman
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:34, Gary L. Greene wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 July 2003 05:58 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: Paul Dorman wrote: Hi all, I've been hunting around the Net for a utility which automatically executes scripts whenever a file