Re: (ITS#6666) Feature Request: Triggers implementation

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Thursday, 7 October 2010 20:32:49 Nick Milas wrote:
> It all started for me when I wanted to watch a serial number value from
> an ldap-stored SOArecord (using powerdns with openldap backend) and when
> it changes to fire a bash script. I reached the conclusion it was not
> easy to be done with higher-level means within openldap and I created a
> bash script which scans (using ldapsearch and other linux tools) the
> SOArecords regularly (using cron) to find out if any change has happend
> and do whatever is required. It would be much more elegant if I could
> get a trigger from openldap when the SOArecord changes.

Maybe you need this:

http://memberwebs.com/stef/software/slapi-dnsnotify/

A more generic solution would be nice, but as far as I can tell, this software 
satisfies your current need.

Regards,
Buchan