Re: Identifying End of Tx in FTP

David L. Sifry (davidsifry.com)
Fri, 29 May 1998 11:04:42 -0700

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Laris Benkis wrote:
>
> We have a system in place where clients drop off files via FTP to a
> wu-ftp server which are then processed automatically by scripts. Files
> have to be processed relatively quickly for the application to work
> properly therefore the convention we have developed is to indicate end
> of transmission by doing a rename of the file once the initial put is done.
> We are trying to tighten the security of the whole process and want to
> use FW1 ftp resources to limit where puts can be done. Unfortunately it
> turns out that when the ftp resources are used it is no longer possible to
> do rename.
>
> The question I have then, is anybody doing something similar to this?
> What is a reliable, transparent way to tell that an ftp transmission has
> been completed?
>

Have a process check the xfer-log that wu-ftpd produces. Voila, you get
a notification whenever a file transfer ends.

Dave

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