[NTLUG:Discuss] Setting up a watch folder

[Leroy Tennison]

Ralph Green wrote:
> Howdy,
>   I think I would take the opportunity to use inotify. This is a feature
> that has been in for a while that will let you get notified when the new
> file comes in.
>    http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-inotify.html
> Good luck,
> Ralph
> 
> On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 15:53 -0600, Daniel Hauck wrote:
>> line, so that functionality is simple and works.  So now I just want to
>> set up a "watch folder" that will respond to plot files being present by
>> sending them to the plotter and then deleting the file.
> 
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Is inotify intended to be only a developer tool or is a program 
available to access/configure it?  I noted that it's supposed to be in 
kernel 6.13+, SuSE 10.3 is 6.22 but there is no /dev/inotify, what's the 
deal?