[Samba] File permissions

[David Brodbeck]

One problem I see with this approach is how do you know the file is done
being written before you move it?  You might get unlucky and move half a
file.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Hammer [mailto:Joel at HammersHome.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:35 AM
> To: Scott Mayo; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] File permissions
> 
> 
> Another approach. 
> 
> If what you are doing is getting the kids to send in school 
> assignments via
> the share, why not write a cron job which monitors that 
> share, say ever 5
> secs, and when a file appears on the share, it is removed and stored
> somewhere else.