[ILUG] FTP server with callbacks

[Nick Murtagh]

On Wednesday 02 January 2002 17:08, Niall O Broin wrote:
> 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.

How about using something like fam to monitor the upload directory?

    http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/index.html

It doesn't sound like something that would be difficult to implement inside
the ftp server itself though.