Re: how to lock a file in ftp site

2005-12-21 Thread Kinsley Turner
> I've come across this problem - instead of uploading the file to it's > > intended directory, upload it to a temp directory, with a unique name > (say ummddhhmmss where u is username and the rest are > obvious) and then *rename* it to it's correct name in the real > destination dir

Re: how to lock a file in ftp site

2005-12-20 Thread Steve Holden
Ben Hutchings wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>hi all >> >>am trying to write some information into the file, which is located in >>ftp, and this file can be updated by number of people, but if at all i >>download a file from the ftp to my local machine, update it and then >>upload it back

Re: how to lock a file in ftp site

2005-12-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all > > am trying to write some information into the file, which is located in > ftp, and this file can be updated by number of people, but if at all i > download a file from the ftp to my local machine, update it and then > upload it back to ftp, and at the same tim

Re: how to lock a file in ftp site

2005-12-20 Thread Kinsley Turner
> am trying to write some information into the file, which is located in > ftp, and this file can be updated by number of people, but if at all i > download a file from the ftp to my local machine, update it and then > upload it back to ftp, and at the same time if some one else downloads > the s

Re: how to lock a file in ftp site

2005-12-19 Thread andy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >hi all > >am trying to write some information into the file, which is located in >ftp, and this file can be updated by number of people, but if at all i >download a file from the ftp to my local machine, update it and then >upload it back to ftp, and at the same time if s

Re: how to lock a file in ftp site

2005-12-19 Thread billie
No, I think you have to manually set this policy directly on the ftp server. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list