On 2006-09-25 16:39:17 +0200, Michael Matz wrote:

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Stanislav Brabec wrote:

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Create a new daemon, running by default: triggerd

In one dist meeting I suggested doing this with e.g. cron or even at. I'm not very fond of yet another system daemon, so we should go through great pain to integrate it with whatever other default-running daemons we have. Or integrate crond into triggerd, whatever.

I completely agree with having something like this, though.

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Specified path can be file, directory or recursive directory search. There will be a special flag (file), which will block/postpone the script calling.

Yes, that's the important feature of this idea. Being able to "merge" several quickly succeeding requests for work and doing the work only once. That's what SuSEconfig was designed for (in part), and needs to be retained.

how about incorportating something like that: http://incron.aiken.cz/ "1. About This program is the "inotify cron" system. It consist of a daemon and a table manipulator. You can use it a similar way as the regular cron. The difference is that the inotify cron handles filesystem events rather than time periods." so we wouldnt need to write our own triggerd but could use incron instead. this might also be a good example why ubuntu wants to incorporate cron/at like functionality into their event based init "upstart". darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org