Automatically Process New Files With fsniper Oct 17, 2008, 22 :03 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (3466 reads) (Other stories by Ben Martin)
"Another use case presents itself in the context of security. Suppose you have a collection of media files that you share read-only on a file server. This security makes it impossible for a user to add new files to the server. With fsniper, you can share an "upload" directory and have scripts move files that are uploaded to it across to the read-only fileserver automatically. If the client machine has a problem it could write random files to the upload directory, but then you have control of new files in the upload directory with the scripts that fsniper calls. For example, your move scripts might check that the file names are sane and that the file types are valid, not allowing random files, only valid JPEG files. At the very least your move scripts might block overwriting files or check the old version of a file into a revision control system before overwriting it."
