This seems to me like one of those "more than one way" things - you could
create a daemon or a cronjob to handle this for ya, depending on your needs
(speed, efficiency and delay time as important factors that I can think of
off the top of my head).
Anyway, whatever you end up choosing, you ca
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Craig Sharp
> Sent: Monday 11 March 2002 17:04
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> Subject: [Perl-unix-users] Automatic ftp download script
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> Ok, here is a good one.
>
> I need to be able to monitor a directory
Ok, here is a good one.
I need to be able to monitor a directory on an ftp server and then download the files
when they have been uploaded to the server.
The problem is how to determine when a file is there and if a file is there, that the
file is done being uploaded from the source.
I was go
