Re: run command when change to ou=something,dc=example,dc=com was made?

[Mike Jackson <mj@sci.fi>]

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> I have a program that reads data from ou=something,dc=example,dc=com, 
> and then creates config files out of it.
>
> It currently runs from cron, but as the changes are made rather seldom 
> (but should be made almost immediately), I feel that this constant 
> pulling of OpenLDAP server, creating config files, running from crontab 
> every few minutes is a little waste of resources.
>
> Is it possible to configure OpenLDAP in a way, that when a change to 
> ou=something,dc=example,dc=com was made (and *only* to ou=something; it 
> shouldn't notify if the change was done to ou=Users etc.), it executes a 
> command/creates a file etc.?

Basically, what you are looking for is called "persistent search". When 
the server supports the persistent search control, and the client API 
supports the same, you can write a persistent search enabled client.

The Net::LDAP perl module has client side support for persistent search, 
btw.

BR,
--
mike