Re: trigger external program on some change

On 8/1/07, Emmanuel Dreyfus manu@netbsd.org wrote:

Hello

I'd need to trigger execution of an external shell script when some particular change occur in the tree. Is there a simple way of doing that?

Of course, an overlay could do that. I saw no available overlay that would have this capacity out of the box. The only way I see is building a new overlay just for that, or use something such as slapo-auditlog and feed it to an external filter (throug a pipe?). I wonder if there is a simplier mechanism available.

Although I kind of think a custom overlay would be cleaner, you could try replicating to a dummy server (like localhost:<off port>) running back-shell or back-perl and simply trigger there.