Re: moving file from one server to another

On Sat, September 30, 2006 5:25 am, Nick Wilson wrote: > yes. i'd considered rsync but the file needs to be available on the > image server immediately. scp'ing it should work, but of course imnow > having fun with the apache user and try9ing to work out how to give it > an ssh profile :) Here's your first problem. There *IS* no such thing as "immediately" in this world. It's a nonsense word in this context. How much time do you REALLY have here as a constraint? Re-think this carefully, because any answer that doesn't provide at least a few seconds is just plain Wrong. :-) Now, once you've got "immediately" out of your head, ponder whether or not the user really wants to sit around, even for a few extra seconds, while *YOU* dink around with this scp stuff. I don't. Would you? Of course not! The user wants to upload the file, and then use those seconds to do something else useful, instead of watching your locked-up web application do "nothing" that is useful to them. If that LAMP/thttp connection gets slogged by a lot of uploads, the LAST thing you want is all your users sitting around *waiting* on that task which is, by definition, out-of-band with what the user wants to do. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?