On Nov 11, 2007 3:34 PM, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote: > If you use proftpd it will upload the file under .in.filename and once the > transfer has completed, the file is renamed to filename And of course you can ask the client to do this manually if the FTP server doesn't support doing it automatically. Upload to one file name, then rename to another, and only process that second name with the cron job. You can even have the cron job end by renaming to a third name, so that there's a way to verify that processing was performed correctly.