NAME¶
ncftpbatch - Individual batch FTP job processor
SYNOPSIS¶
ncftpbatch -d
ncftpbatch -l
ncftpbatch -D
OPTIONS¶
Command line flags:¶
- -d
- Begin background processing of FTP jobs in the current
user's $HOME/.ncftp/spool directory. This returns immediately, because a
daemon process is spawned and ran in the background.
- -l
- Lists the contents of the user's job queue.
- -D
- This is like -d, except that the process does not
become a daemon.
DESCRIPTION¶
This program is responsible for processing background FTP requests. It is
normally only run by
ncftp and not manually by a human being, however
you can run it to manually process the FTP job queue.
The jobs are spool files written to a user's $HOME/.ncftp/spool directory and
have a special format and file-naming convention (which contains when the job
is to be run).
ncftp runs this program when it needs to, but if the
ncftpbatch daemon dies unexpectedly the jobs that are left in the queue
will not be processed until another instance of
ncftpbatch is run.
ncftpget and
ncftpput can also be used to submit jobs for batch
processing, using those utilities'
-b command-line flag. If desired,
you can also manually create the spool files although this procedure is not
documented here (see the manual page for
ncftpspooler for more
information on how to do that).
DIAGNOSTICS¶
ncftpbatch writes to its own log file, the $HOME/.ncftp/spool/log file.
This file should be examined to determine if any
ncftpbatch processes
are actively working on jobs.
AUTHOR¶
Mike Gleason, NcFTP Software (
http://www.ncftp.com).
SEE ALSO¶
ncftp(1),
ncftpput(1),
ncftpget(1).