Re: Alternative Data Transport In Big Brother?

As far as polling goes (if that's what you do), if it's anything like
Unix,
you might be able to avoid polling with something like:
	tail -f /var/log/messages | grep " ftpd\[.*\]: FTP session
closed"
but I don't know how less expensive (if at all) that would be over
polling.

Hmm, something like this should work (last two lines untested)
Warning: filename collisions still might occur; milliseconds?

#!/bin/sh
#bb command via ftp
OLDIFS=$IFS;IFS='
';filename=$BBTMP/$1.$$.`date +%s` #Unique?
for line in $2; do     #1-step splice?
  IFS=$OLDIFS
  echo $line>>$filename
done
ncftpput remote-host remote-dir $filename
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then rm $filename ; fi   #cron sends undelivered

>>> [email protected] 4/24/2003 08:29:17 >>>
Thanks for the info.  Modifying bbfetch still seems like my best bet. 
The
real trouble here is that in most cases, I have oneway ftp access
available
to me, and that is from the hospital back to my central server.  
Almost all
of the external scripts/modifications to BB that allow this type of
thing
use a pull methodology originating from the central server.  I need to
create a push method where the central server just routinely polls for
new
information that has come in.
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