Hi Anil! > Thank you - I think the ssh option is interesting. I > could be mistaken but it strikes me that it would have > the downside of allowing the user to wander all over > the machine if he decided to manually try it Yep, if you have the login for an account which allows ssh the user can explore the whole machine. There are descriptions out there to run ssh in an chroot environment which will solve this, but if I remember correctly they require a patched sshd.
If there is a http server running on the machine you might also trigger the unpack through an cgi-bin script, though, then you might have problems with user permissions as this cgi-bin runs with the configured http-server user-/group-id. If applicable I'd go the crontab/daemon way. You can scan your directories once per minute, should not be too hard for the machine as the directory scan will surely be done in memory (fs-cache) - a simple bash script will do the job. Just my 0.02€ ;-) Ciao, Mario --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
