Hi,
I am not sure if this mailing list is still alive, as I
haven't received anything from it for quite sometime.
I have a few queries on the ftp, and would be grateful for
any advice anyone could offer.
We are considering setting up an account on our 2100 Server
for file transfer for a particular project in a controller manner.
a. We don't want to use the anonymous ftp account but dedicate this
file transfer account for a particular project for access to specific
data. Is there any way we can restrict the usage of this account
to ftp and cron jobs? (A bit like a restrictive account under VMS.)
b. Is it possible to enforce the file creation mask (umask) on a ftp
session on this account? I tried putting the umask command in
.login and .cshrc but it is not activated. Files are created with
a default mask of 644, as opposed to 440 I need.
c. When a large file is transferred into the local system, how can we
tell if the transfer is complete. We don't want to process the file
when it is still being filled with data. My simple tests suggest
that the file being opened for writing by the ftp process can also
be written (or appended) with data by another process.
Many thanks in advance.
Received on Mon Jul 01 1996 - 10:22:13 NZST