[NTLUG:Discuss] Setting up a watch folder

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Ben Weatherall <bweatherall at pdxinc.com> wrote:
> Regardless of which scripting language you use, if you are going to
> trigger at 1-minute intervals you are probably going to have to use some
> form of semaphore locking (probably file based) so that a newer
> instantiation of the script will not try to send the same file already
> being processed by an older instantiation.
>
> -Ben Weatherall

ah yes...

perhaps have the script move a file to a cache location before it
starts proccessing
no file in cache will trigger a print job, only ones in the que folder
will start a print job(after they are moved out of que)




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