Dear Mark, Yea... The trick with crontab jobs is they need an environment...
Learned that one the hard way! Regards, Paul On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 11:11 AM Mark Post <mar...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On 6/14/2024 10:54 AM, Paul Flint wrote: > > Greetings Russell, > > > > Why don't you set up a directory where you will send the files and then use > > a cron tab job in the Linux environment to look for files in that directory > > and then do what you want with them in linux. This will save you from > > fooling around with things like udev which is not for the faint of > > heart.... > > Doing things like that can be just about as tricky as trying to write > udev rules. Race conditions abound, if you're not careful. Seeing as how > I'm one of the people that asked for the udev event to be generated for > the unsolicited device end interrupt, I'm willing to admit to being a > bit biased, as well as having been burned in the past by trying your > suggestion. :) > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
