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# 1  
Old 08-17-2009
How to understand if a file is complete
Hi there,
files are being transferred via ftp to a folder in my machine which runs solaris 8. I would like to know if is possible to find out from my side if a file is completely transferred or not.

Is there a way to control this?

Thanks!
# 2  
Old 08-17-2009
you can check with "fuser" if the file is beeing handled by a process. if not, the transfer should be complete...
# 3  
Old 08-17-2009
Kindly check the file size at both end. There should be very less different in the size as size increases/decreases as per file system.

If there is any corruption in the file after download, any error should come.

If /var/adm/xferlog shows the successful download, it means correct data was downloaded.

Thanks,
Deepak
# 4  
Old 08-17-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by naw_deepak
Kindly check the file size at both end. There should be very less different in the size as size increases/decreases as per file system.

If there is any corruption in the file after download, any error should come.

If /var/adm/xferlog shows the successful download, it means correct data was downloaded.

Thanks,
Deepak
The problem is that I can check only in my end.
And I want to write a small script that will execute some commands after the transfer is complete in my machine.
# 5  
Old 08-17-2009
OR change the ftp statement in the download to something like this
Code:
.......
get somefile.dat iambeingdownloaded
rename iambegindownloaded somefile.dat

if partially downloaded file show up in the directory. If a file has a reasonable name it is complete.
# 6  
Old 08-17-2009
You can do it by below ways:

Write in your script,
Code:
ftp servername
username
password
get filename
bye

And then you can execute your desired commands. Please write if it doesn't solve your purpose.

Thanks,
Deepak
# 7  
Old 08-24-2009
I used finally the lsof because fuser was not working.

Thanks for your help
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