Ok, my full use case:
We have a 18TB share on DC. It's too large to just browse around to see what's new, so I've written 'n DCComparer app that parses the .xml.bz2 files, imports it to a .sqlite file and does a comparison with the previous week's import. I generate a report of the new files based on that.
I keep a distribution list of all our DC users on Gmail. I'm not part of the admin team, so I don't get notified when they add new users. Every week I go onto DC, copy the active users' email address (with Valknut), and import them into my distribution list (most are ignored because they already exist).
Ok, my full use case:
We have a 18TB share on DC. It's too large to just browse around to see what's new, so I've written 'n DCComparer app that parses the .xml.bz2 files, imports it to a .sqlite file and does a comparison with the previous week's import. I generate a report of the new files based on that.
I keep a distribution list of all our DC users on Gmail. I'm not part of the admin team, so I don't get notified when they add new users. Every week I go onto DC, copy the active users' email address (with Valknut), and import them into my distribution list (most are ignored because they already exist).
Then I email (BCC) the report out to everybody.