Hi...

Oki here is the thing...
Say a file A.bat is being transfered through FTP to folder A..
Now I will write a cron job that will transfer the file from folder A to folder B based on some criteria..Unix allows me to move a file even if it is not completely ftp tranfered.. .So I should determine if the file has been transfered to A(completely) before transfering to B..How do I do that?

I tried greping the process list trying to find out if any FTP file transfer in progress. But I couldn find any specfic file transfer details.

Any ideas?

lsof can show you if the file is open, but in fact if the file is not moving partition then it probably won't care. once the file is opened, it's location doesn't matter any more, it's a space on a disk that is being read, not a filename in a directory, so renaming / moving within a partition won't affect the actual file itself.

Thanks Chris.
But lsof is not supported in my target system.Also the transfer might be between different partitions.I actualy simulated a scenario like this. I was FTP transfering a file to the source directory. Simultaneously I ran the script to mv the files that are currently in the source directory. My script moves the file(the file that is currently under FTP transfer) but ftp transfer fails with the following message

150 Ok to send data.
> Netout :Software caused connection abort
451 Failure writing to local file.
ftp: 123009195 bytes sent in 10.48Seconds 11743.12Kbytes/sec.

what about netstat? what is the target system?