i was imprecise. my situation is high bandwidth, secure and low latency. but i have the gist.
On May 4, 2011, at 4:07 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote: > On Wed, 4 May 2011, Andrew Hume wrote: > >> it is time for my annual head-slapping over scp. >> >> is there any plausible alternative to scp? mostly its all fine, >> but i am struggling over having to do an additional ssh >> afterwards to confirm teh file got there (or to let >> the other side know its done). >> >> any reasonable command would do something with the file modes >> or (like ftp) allow you to rename the file (say from foo! to foo) after the >> copy finished. >> of course, the wretched scp faq says "no changes; it has to be like rcp" >> which is fine and all, except rcp is a very old piece of crap. >> >> surely we can do better? > > are you looking for a general solution? or are you looking for a solution > that you can use in a particular use case? > > if you are looking for something for a particular use case, I would suggest > trying to do http file uploads to a cgi, that cgi can then take action when > it finishes getting the file to do anything else. > > this won't work for run-of-the-mill ad-hoc sysadmin work, but it will work > for process automation work. > > David Lang_______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ ------------------ Andrew Hume (best -> Telework) +1 623-551-2845 and...@research.att.com (Work) +1 973-236-2014 AT&T Labs - Research; member of USENIX and LOPSA
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