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Re: Ftp on demand
- To: Erez Avraham <ereza(at-nospam)meetu.com>
- Subject: Re: Ftp on demand
- From: Ilya Konstantinov <linux-il(at-nospam)future.galanet.net>
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 12:49:24 +0300
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 10:24:04AM +0200, Erez Avraham wrote:
> Greetings
>
> Ftp on demand -
> I noticed several sites are using this method to allow access to there ftp
> sites.
> you send email, or request from the web site and you are
> mailed back with temporary ftp URL, accessible for 12 hours
> how does it achieved, is it a build-in feature ? or do I have to write
> a script for it to happen? if it's a script, samples will be nice
> i'm using suse 7.1 and WU ftp server.
They might setup a temporary hard link to the actual directory
containing the files and then have a cronjob erase hardlinks whose time
has passes every hour.
There are many ways to do it, and this is one of them.
--
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov
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