Hi...
I have written a cronjob to invoke a script that would transfer files based on some criteria.
Consider folders A and B. Say I FTP a large file to A. Before the file gets fully transfered say the cronjob gets invoked. The script will move the file before its fully transfered. To detect such I used "lsof" in Redhat.
lsof |grep <filename> will give me the filename that is currently under transfer.But this is not working exactly the same way in Solaris..
I mean the command is working but it doesn list the file that is currently under transfer. It doesn give the open file descriptors..It displays the devices and stuff but not the file that is currently under transfer..

Any ideas??
Thanks..

Last post I had said that "lsof" is not working properly in Solaris.
It does works fine but like this..

Say I transfer a file to my home directory through ftp, I can detect the file transfer using "lsof |grep <filename>"

But the same file if I transfer to a directory, outside my home directory Im not able to detect. I own the target directory and I have given 777 permissions to it. Even then also lsof is not listing the file..

Why is this?

Any ideas..

Thanks

Can you provide more details about the ftp transfer and lsof commands used. i.e. a small scenario showing both the working and the failing case.
lsof is not part of Solaris and is known to have some limitations, especially with Solaris 10 and newer.
You may want to use pfiles instead.