[Samba] File permissions

[Richard Smart]

> > > > > 
> > > > > > -----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.
> > > > 
We used this approach (and still do) very successfully for school kids 
sending in assignments. We wrote a small C prog to get around issues such 
as two kids using the same filename by mistake (added a datestamp to the 
submitted filename). Our cron job clears the input share every 60 seconds. 
So far no corruption problems of any sort ...

RIchard Smart