Re: [PLUG] General "incoming" file processor or framework?

["K.S. Bhaskar" <bhaskar@bhaskars.com>]

JP --

We're developing something that can be purposed (probably with a small amount of scripting / programming) that may be usable. ÂWatch this space. ÂOne of us will volunteer to give a talk when it is released. ÂYes it will be released under a FOSS license and yes it will run on GT.M.

Regards

-- Bhaskar

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:02 AM, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:

Is anyone aware of any kind of general "incoming" file processor or framework? ÂI'm not talking about 'inotify' but something more like:

1) Notice an arbitrary file has appeared in an arbitrary location
    1.1) Maybe by using inotify, but that's not the point
2) Perform some arbitrary action on the file based on arbitrary rules

One use-case would be for "write only" storage for log or audit data for PCI compliance. ÂSo you transmit the data as a tarball into some writeable directory via scp or whatever, and the file is picked up, hashed, manifested, processed or just moved to a read-only archive location from which it may be later downloaded if needed.

It's not all that hard to do, but it seems like a reasonably obvious task that may already exist, but if so I'm not finding it. ÂYears ago I might have looked for something called a "drop box" but these days that term is swamped into uselessness...

I would need something small and stand-alone, something built into a giant framework like Rails or Zope is unnecessary overkill.

Clues? ÂThanks,
JP
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