RE: Utility needed

1998-04-02 Thread Lewis, James M.
We have a similar problem. What we did was send a marker file after the one with data in it. If the marker file is there, the file is finished. If using ftp it would be something like ftp -n somehost user username password cd theplaceyouwant put file.ps put

Re: Utility needed

1998-04-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Well, first of all when you say "state" of the file this is a very vague term. Second of all this is a debian Linux list, not a Solaris list. Did you know you can run Debian Linux on sparc? Anyway, the closest you'll probably get is to user 'fuser' to find out if any process has the file open. Adm