Hot folder as input to cups?
Helge Blischke
h.blischke at srz.de
Mon Sep 4 05:34:37 PDT 2006
gary carroll wrote:
> 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
>
Sent it by separate mail. Good luck.
Helge
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