[LUNI] What to do with an rsynced file? -- Advice Sought

[Gordon A. Knoppe]

Have you looked into iNotify?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify

Brian Sobolak wrote:
> On Dec 24, 2007 5:06 PM, Richard Reina <richard at rushlogistics.com> wrote:
>> I have files that are periodically transfered over to a local pc.  I would like that these files to be sent to a local serial port. I now do this manually via cat /dev/ttyD0.  I was looking for advice on the best way to automate this.  I though about perhaps creating a perl script that checks the local directory every ten seconds or so, but thought that there may be a better way.  I was wondering if anyone had any experience with something similar that might lead to ideas, do and don't to this sort of situation?
>>
> 
> Umm, use cron to run cat /dev/ttyD0 every 10 seconds?
> 
> If you need more tricky logic than that, have cron call a bash/perl
> script to add smarts.
> 
> brian
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