Here's a thought: what about doing an lsof? If a file is still being written by ftpd it should be open for writing.

Geoff

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-----Original Message----- From: gjgowey@tmo.blackberry.net

Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:07:23 Subject: re: [centos] how to know when files have finished ftping? -- antair restored

On Nov 11, 2007 2:20 PM, Neil Aggarwal neil@jammconsulting.com wrote:

Hello:

I have a server set up a CentOS 5 server for a client to push files onto using FTP.

I have a cron job to process the files and move them to another directory.

Sometimes, the cron job executes while the client is still uploading a file (Some of them can be large) and I get a partial file.

Is there a way to tell when a file has finished uploading?

I am using the vsftpd daemon installed using yum.

Thanks, Neil

Wow, all quite involved answers.

You may be able to get the list of files to process using 'find'. If you check using "-mmin +X", you might be able to get only files that haven't been updated in X minutes. That should filter out anything in progress. If a transfer is stopped in the middle, then restarted later, that wouldn't help here.

It's possible that the FTP daemon might not update this information, so you'll have to expieriment. It's worth a shot before you start telling the client to modify their process. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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