Re: [PLUG] check for a file being transmitted via ftp

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org> wrote:

Ah DOH!, forgot about lsof. Nice. Thanks.

On 03/25/2014 02:10 PM, Doug Stewart wrote:
> Does `lsof | grep filename` not work?
>
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> Doug Stewart
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>> On Mar 25, 2014, at 2:05 PM, "Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
>>
>> I expect a file to be routinely transmitted to me via ftp. A bash script,
>> invoked as a cron job, will process and then archive that ftp file.
>>
>> All of that is easy/routine.
>>
>> My question is: how do I know that the file is complete? I don't want to
>> start processing the file without being sure that the ftp process is done.
>>
>> I thought about checking the size of the file in bytes and then comparing that
>> to it's size 1 minute earlier... if it's not growing then it's probably done.
>> But, that's just *probably* as ftp could be stalled temporarily or worse.
>>
>> I have also considered about using inotify cron (incron) but I expect that it
>> would be triggered at the file's creation - not when it's time for me to
>> process it.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Eric
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