Watch Dog

The watch dog is a tool that allows you to automate the loading of subjects from an “INCOMING” directory.

This is best set up as a service and run in the background.

# Example service file.
[Unit]
Description=My mi_watcher Service
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=hurahura -config /path/to/myconf.conf -WatchDirectory /path/to/incoming
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

See: https://fraser29.github.io/autorthanc/ for a DICOM SERVER with auto-download options that work nicely with the watch dog.