Andrew> i was imprecise. my situation is high bandwidth, secure and Andrew> low latency. but i have the gist.
You might also want to look at 'bbcp' which sets the mode to 0200 for the in-progress state, then changes it to either the original mode, or to 644 (or whatever your umask is I think). It's written by the SLAC people in Stanford. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~abh/bbcp/ I've found it works well with single large files over a high bandwidth, high latency link as well, letting me fill the entire pipe quite easily. Not quite your setup, but close. And I think it meets your needs for letting the destination easily check for complete files arriving. John _______________________________________________ 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/