Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everyone,
Please find the script for Filewatcher rule file,which does the simple job of moving the files whenever it dectects to another directory.And whenever it detects the cmd_mm.stop file,it should terminate the job.

INTERVAL 60

ON_FILEWATCH ${HLD}/CMD/* CREATE 0 1 2 0400 5
THEN
DO_CMD mv ${HLD}/CMD/* ${HLD}/CMD_SCRIPTS
ELSE
DO_CMD echo "File not detected."
END_ON

#The following command watches for stop file to terminate the job for the day.
ON_FILEWATCH ${HLD}/CMD/cmd_mm.stop CREATE 0 0 30 0400 31
THEN
DO_CMD rm ${HLD}/CMD/cmd_mm.stop
DO_OK
END_ON

Now the problem is that creation of cmd_mm.stop file of zero size doesn't seem to terminte the job.The job simply moves cmd_mm.stop file to ${HLD}/CMD_SCRIPTS directory and carries on and on with filewatching.
(Note:cmd_mm.stop file is of zero size.)
Thoughts plz?
Thanks for all the solutions that I've got from experts of this forum.
Bhagat

Exclude the stop file from the first ON_FILEWATCH or Invert the two rules.

Jean-Pierre.

You mean my rule file should look like this?

INTERVAL 60
#The following command watches for stop file to terminate the job for the day.
ON_FILEWATCH ${HLD}/CMD/cmd_mm.stop CREATE 0 0 30 0400 31
THEN
DO_CMD rm ${HLD}/CMD/cmd_mm.stop
DO_OK
END_ON

ON_FILEWATCH ${HLD}/CMD/* CREATE 0 1 2 0400 5
THEN
DO_CMD mv ${HLD}/CMD/* ${HLD}/CMD_SCRIPTS
ELSE
DO_CMD echo "File not detected."
END_ON