[ILUG] FTP server with callbacks

[Niall O Broin]

I've asked this before quite some time ago and got no real answer but I'll
ask again in case anyone knows of any changes in the last year or so.

I have a situation where people use FTP to upload files to a server and
whenever a file has been uploaded som post processing needs doing to it. The
ideal solution to this would be a FTP server which would run some process
when a file has been uploaded, passing the process the pathname of the
uploaded file and perhaps some other information (owner ? - for my purposes,
the pathname will suffice). Apparently this had been discussed on some
server's dev. list but hadn't been implemented.

For the moment, my solution is a hacked version of wu-ftpd which has had its
logging altered slightly and a process which reads the ftpd log file. The
process blocks waiting for a new entry and of course unblocks whenever a new
file is uploaded and then does whatever processing is necessary. This works
perfectly but it's a little sloppy and besides hardly a day passes without
mention of some new wu-ftpd vulnerability. There's no anonymous access and
there are only a few users but nonetheless I'd like to say goodbye to
wu-ftpd and hopefully replace it by a server which will work as I described
above. Any offers ?




Niall