Such a method requires the client to change their process, which in most cases is unacceptable. On Nov 12, 2007 4:07 PM, Colht, Charles <Charles.Colht at acsalaska.com> wrote: > Just to chime in here, what I use is another file that is transferred > last. It can be zero sized. Just some name you look for and then delete > when you are done for next time. It doesn't matter how long that one > takes because you will know that the important files are already > transferred. > > chuck > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Neil Aggarwal > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 7:28 AM > To: 'CentOS mailing list' > Subject: RE: [centos] how to know when files have finished ftping? > --antairrestored > > > Geoff: > > I used lsof. > > Thanks everyone for the suggestions. > > Neil > > > Here's a thought: what about doing an lsof? If a file is > > still being written by ftpd it should be open for writing. >