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Overview
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Rattail File Monitor is a "service" (or "daemon") which does "one
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thing" - it watches some folder(s) and when new files appear it takes
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action(s) on them. It runs "forever" unless stopped, regardless of
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whether anyone is currently logged onto the machine.
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In many cases the "action" is just to copy (or move) the file
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elsewhere, for further processing. In some cases it may be to "copy"
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the file directly to a printer port, e.g. LPT1.
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Sometimes the action will be to "import" and/or "process" data from
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the file, updating the Rattail DB or other systems.
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However the action may be anything at all. Most common actions, e.g.
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copying a file to another location, are provided by way of Python
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functions or classes, in other words Python code. But you can also
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invoke an arbitrary command line for the action, which needn't involve
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Python at all.
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