[Orca-users] Re: Question: Different data transfer mechanism ??

[Blair Zajac]

SE can run any system call that a normal C program can, so you should
be able to use fork(), exec() or system() to do what you want.

Blair

Sean O'Neill wrote:

> From: "Sean O'Neill" <sean.oneill at appnet.com>
>
> I was thinking about this last night on the way home from work.
>
> One possible way to handle this might be to modify the SE script that to
> execute something like Rsync.  Assuming Rsync works correctly, the only data
> that should be transmitted during the Rsync push would be the data the just
> got written to the file.
>
> If I find time, I'm going to try to play with this idea.
>
> BTW, does anyone know if SE can execute "outside" programs ... like rsync in
> this case ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mastinj at usintout02.net.bms.com
> [mailto:mastinj at usintout02.net.bms.com]On Behalf Of John Mastin
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 8:15 AM
> To: orca-users at onelist.com
> Subject: [orca-users] Re: Question: Different data transfer mechanism ??
>
> From: John Mastin <john.mastin at bms.com>
>
> Sean,
>
> > Does anyone have a different data transfer mechanism for Orca
> > besides NFS ?
> >
> We have been toying with the very same idea of eliminating NFS
> dependencies.  On some of our machines, we want to run practically stand
> alone.  One idea is to put a mini webserver on each machine.  I've heard
> good things about boa (www.boa.org) and
> it might be what we're looking for.
>
> Of course Blair's idea of having an independent cronjob run that
> transfers the files on the condition that the receiving end is up and
> alive.
>
> Johnny
>
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