kschwab makes a very good point. How do you know when the transfer is done? I used the following to see if the file was modified at least ten seconds ago (Hopefully avoiding a race condition): 

$getinfile=$indir.$infile;

($device,$inode,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size,$atime,$mtime,$ctim
+e,
$blksize,$blocks) = stat($getinfile);

my($timenow)=time;
$delta=$timenow-$mtime;


if ($delta < 10)     #***file too young, wait a few seconds
{
next;              #***jump to the end of the loop
}

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I haven't actually seen a race condition, but, like kschwab, worried about it. I would take advice on any (more coherent) means of assuring a file was closed.

-Diskcrash

In reply to Re: Cron Job?? by diskcrash
in thread Cron Job?? by Anonymous Monk

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