<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I use incron for this kind of thing. Trigger on the close of the file. <br><br><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-- </span><br style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Brian Lalor</span><br style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="mailto:blalor@bravo5.org">blalor@bravo5.org</a></span></div><div><br>On Mar 6, 2016, at 9:13 AM, michael gordon <<a href="mailto:mgordonabc@gmail.com">mgordonabc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>We allow our third party clients to upload files for processing via ftp. Once the file is done a java app is triggered to process the file and move it to a processed folder. How do we know when the file is done writing,the file events we have observed include create, modify. These dont help since the ftp program writes file contents in blocks and then triggers the modified event, there is no finish event.<br><br></div>What can you recommend<br clear="all"><div><div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><blockquote type="cite"><div><font size="2"><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Michael Gordon</b><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></font><b style="font-size:small;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:gordonm@rada.gov.jm" style="color:rgb(0,84,136)" target="_blank">mgordonabc@</a><a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a></b></div><div><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)" size="2"><br></font></div></blockquote></span></div>
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