Hello Simo & NG, >Correct me if I'm wrong but since it _seems_ that the listing doesn't >need to be up-to-date each minute/hour as the users will be looking >primarily for old/unused files, why not have a daily cronjob on the >Unix server to produce an appropriate file list on e.g. the root >directory of your file server?
You are correct. I don't need this list to be updated every minute/hour. >$ find . -type f -printf "%T@ %u %s %p\n" > /yourserverroot/files.txt That is a nice idea. I don't know very much about Unix, but I suppose that on a ksh I can run this command (or a similar one) in order to obtain the list I need. If anyone knows if that command will run also on a simple ksh, could please confirm that? Moreover, I could run this script in a while loop, like: while 1: do if -e [/yourserverroot/filesbackup.txt]; then find . -type f -printf "%T@ %u %s %p\n" > /yourserverroot/files.txt copy /yourserverroot/files.txt /yourserverroot/filesbackup.txt else find . -type f -printf "%T@ %u %s %p\n" > /yourserverroot/filesbackup.txt fi done or something similar (I don't have Unix at hand now, I can not test the commands and, as I said, I don't know Unix very well...). In this way, I always have the filesbackup.txt up-to-date, as a function of the "find" speed on the server. Then my GUI could scan the filesbackup.txt file and search for a particular user information. Thanks to all the NG for your suggestions! Andrea. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list