Re: Identifying End of Tx in FTP

["David L. Sifry" <david () sifry com>]

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