[Samba] File permissions
Joel Hammer
Joel at HammersHome.com
Tue Aug 20 07:42:46 GMT 2002
I tried mv, and like you predicted, that works fine. The piped output keeps
flowing right to that file.
Now, I wonder about permissions....
Joel
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 12:03:40PM -0400, David Brodbeck wrote:
> Most Linux utilities have no real concept of file locking. I think cp will
> quite happily copy a file that's in the process of being written to. I'm
> not sure what'd happen if you tried to mv or rm it. mv might be okay, as
> long as it was to the same filesystem, since the inode would stay the same.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joel Hammer [mailto:Joel at HammersHome.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 11:59 AM
> > To: David Brodbeck; samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: Re: [Samba] File permissions
> >
> >
> > I would be surprised if linux would be so impolite as to
> > attempt to move a
> > file that was being writen to. Would cp or rm be so badly behaved?
> > But, I get surprised everyday.
> > I guess the only way to be sure is to try it out and see.
> > Have the cron job
> > run every second and start saving some big files. Or, you
> > might use smbstatus to
> > make sure the file wasn't in use before acting on it.
> > Joel
> > On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:27:42AM -0400, David Brodbeck wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
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