> > Sure I understand that, but If I wanted it to be within 15 > seconds response, I'd have to check 4times x 60 seconds x 60 > minutes x 24 hours per day. Kind of a waste for a file that > may or may not be transmitted each day. > > I was thinking that perhaps there was something that would > monitor the SYSLOG and could trigger jobs (scripts) based on > a syslog entry. > You could use syslog-ng, and some verbose logging on your FTP daemon. Setup a filter to either trigger based on a file transfer, or based on a specific file name. based on that filter, syslog-ng can launch a program, or send data to a pipe that could be picked up by a simple daemon... The syslog-ng FAQ has some good examples. Mike _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos