On Monday 15 March 2010, you wrote: > I need to run a script after a customer FTP uploads a file to my vsftpd > server. > > Is there a better way to initiate the script than using cron to > periodically `find` new files? > > GC > What about enabling xferlog_enable=YES in your vsftpd.conf file and then seeing if it writes a success message to the log file when a transfer is complete?
I am not a vsftp user so I may be barking up the wrong tree. Cheers Ross Drummond PS. Hint of the day; It is worthwhile to learn the commands for the BSD ftp client. It is installed on most Linux boxes and all Windows boxes. This makes it very useful for slinging files around on $RANDOM boxes.
