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Andrea Venturoli writes:

>  I have a script which monitors a directory and wakes up as soon
>  as a new file appears.  I'm using sysutils/wait_on for this, but
>  this port expired a few days ago.
>
>  Is there a drop in replacement? Any other suggestion?

	Isn't there a component of the GNOME suite which does this?


				Robert Huff