[kwlug-disc] if {other command done} then...

[Johnny Ferguson]

This looks awesome Raul. I have to frequently rsync certain application 
data between my two machines, and with something like this I could only 
fire syncing when the important files change.

Great find.

Do you know if there's a tool already written with this that would watch 
a list of files and execute a command when a given notification was 
received? It wouldn't be too hard to whip something up, but I'm sure it 
already exists.

-Johnny

On 07/08/2010 11:29 AM, Raul Suarez wrote:
> At work we use a batch control application but sometimes, when we need to go across platforms (or business partners) we rely on trigger files.
>
> We would have a watcher job that triggers the next steps as soon as the file is received.
>
> It is a fairly simple and fail proof method. Under Linux you can use inotify
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8478
>
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> --- On Thu, 7/8/10, Insurance Squared Inc.<gcooke at insurancesquared.com>  wrote:
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>> From: Insurance Squared Inc.<gcooke at insurancesquared.com>
>> Subject: [kwlug-disc] if {other command done} then...
>> To: "KWLUG discussion"<kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
>> Received: Thursday, July 8, 2010, 11:00 AM
>> I push my webserver and desktops each
>> night over to a backup server using rsync by running a
>> script on the desktops/webserver.  I've got that set
>> for 1am.
>> Then at about 3 am on the backup server I run a script that
>> compresses the backups and dates it.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to ensure the script on the backup
>> server doesn't start running until the backups are
>> done?  Or would I be better forcing the compression and
>> dating right from the desktop script?
>>
>> g.
>>
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