[ale] polling directories

[Tony Carter]

dnotify ( http://www.student.lu.se/~nbi98oli/dnotify.html ) has been 
working great for me.

-Tony

On Sep 29, 2004, at 9:37 PM, John Wells wrote:

> I'd like to watch a few specific directories on a Linux system for new
> files.  Each time a user copies a file into the directory, I'd like to
> specify a script that will run, using that file as its argument.
>
> I can write this myself, but I wonder if someone hasn't already 
> invented
> this wheel?  Is anything approaching a standard way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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