Well, it's a samba mounted file transfer from an NT box that is writing a
tiff file as a fax is received.  The NT box won't allow me to move the file
until it's finished writing, so that's cool.  But once the file start's
being moved to the Unix box, I need to be able to move it again through scp
to another Unix box once I know the file is not still being written to.

----- Original Message -----
From: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
To: Amir Nazary <anazary@imagepower.com>
Cc: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 1999 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: Copying a file from one box to another


> On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 11:51:28AM -0700, Amir Nazary wrote:
> > How can I be sure that a file that I am scp'ing from one box to another
is a
> > completed file (it's still not being written to)  Is there some test
that
> > can be done to make sure the file is complete before I scp it (so as not
to
> > get half a file)
>
> It really depends on your environment... i.e. What was writing to the
file,
> and how?
>
> If it's a daemon, check to see that the daemon's not running.
> If the file is kept open while in use, use lsof to see that nothing has it
open.
> If it's a daemon and is running, can you rename the file, and kill -HUP
the
> daemon to have it start a new file?
>
> --
> David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net --> Mastery of UNIX, like
> mastery of language, offers real freedom. The price of freedom is always
dear,
> but there's no substitute. Personally, I'd rather pay for my freedom than
live
> in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT. - Thomas Scoville