Automating FTP

[chammock]

I plan to run ftp server on Linux. Will be receiving files from up to 1000 different users. I need to know what happens when duplicate file names show up in the ftp directory. Is it an overwrite or is a character like a 1 (bob to bob1) added.

Can we have a routine auto run as soon as a file is 'put' into a specified directory to rename the file and forward to another directory??

It may be an option to set up separate directories for each UserID and PW, but we did not really want to have to establish separate UserID and PW for each person because of the ongoing maintenance.

Thanks for the help or any suggestions on a better method.

Cliff

[pdc]

Look up sunique. It makes up a unique name for each put operation. You will still need to poll for newly arrived files and have some means of determining where they should go.
Paul