[geeks] ftp upload renaming

[Michael Parson]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:25:12PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> I have a client who wants users to be able to stage new documents to a
> UNIX server that processes documents.  The processing involves moving
> a document into the right place, reading it and putting parts of it in a
> database, etc.

<snip>

How real-time does this have to be?

You could have a cron job that watches a directory and takes action when
it sees files.

This could free the end users to use whatever file transfer protocol
they feel comfortable with (ftp, scp, apptletalk, nfs, samba, etc).

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org