Hot folder as input to cups?

[gary carroll]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> gary carroll wrote:
> 
>> Is is possible to use a (shared) hot folder as input to cups? Drop 
>> files in, picked up and script determines what to do?
>>
>> Its easy to schedule cron to run a script to do something with them, 
>> but I would like a bit more granularity than the 1 minute cron offers.
> 
> 
> I have a hack for SAMBA (most recently done for 3.0.20) which is based
> on the "magic script" feature. It permits to define a script which does
> whatever you want for each file dropped in via SMB, and the script start
> is triggered by closing the dropped-in file.
> 
> If you are interested, I could send you a diff for the affected SAMBA
> module.
> 
> Helge
> 
Thank you, I would be very interested in looking at this!
garycarroll at charter.net