Dropboxhandler

Listen for marker files (.MARKER_is_finished_<filename>) in a set of directories. All incoming files are copied (or hard linked) to other directories:

• storage: All incoming files are copied here. Additionally a file <filename>.sha265 is created, that contains checksums. You can check the files with sha256sum -c <filename>.sha256.
• manual: If the file name does not contain a valid barcode, copy it here.
• openbis: If the name of the incoming file contains a valid openbis barcode, the input file will be copied to openbis dropboxes. Which dropbox is used for which file is specified in the config file by regular expressions.

Install

Execute

python setup.py install

At github.com/qbicsoftware/specs you can find a spec file for building an RPM.

Configure

See

dropboxhandler -h

for a small overview of the options.

Execute

dropboxhandler --print-example-config

adjust the config to your needs and store it in a file. To start the daemon, execute

dropboxhandler --daemon -c config_file

If you change the configuration check it with

dropboxhandler -c config_file --check-config

and tell drobpoxhandler to re-read the config:

kill -HUP pid_of_dropboxhandler

The new config will apply to all new incoming files and will not apply to files that are being processed when the signal arrived.

System service

The rpm that can be created with the spec file at qbicsoftware/specs has an additional config file at /etc/dropboxhandler.conf which must define the variables USER and USER_CONFIG_FILE pointing to the user the service should be executed as and the dropboxhandler config file. A template can be found at service/drobpoxhandler.conf