[Sheflug] Running programs on file creation

["Graham Cox" <nospam [at] shef.ac.uk>]

A bit of a strange question here, but does anyone know of a way to run a
program as soon as a file is created in a specific directory?

Basically I've got a system set up so that every minute the directory
/var/lock/connect is checked, and if there are any files in there then I get
connected to the internet, and if there aren't any files in there then I get
disconnected from the internet. This is done via a crontab entry, and works
fairly well. The problem is the 1 minute turn-around on
connection/disconnection attempts. I was just wondering if there's a way of
doing it automatically on the creation of these files?
--
Graham

An' Ye harm none,
do as Ye will.


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