Writing large files to AIX

[dendenners]

Hey there,
I have a cron job that checks whether a file exists in a certain place every hour, and if it does, copies it to a different directory. However, the application that writes the file does not seem to rename the file once it is completely written. Thus there is a chance that my cron job may detect the file when it is only half-written, and copy only half the file to my required location. I was wondering is there some AIX flag that marks a file as not being completely written, or is that left to the program that writes the file. Thanks

 

[bimux]

Try the "fuser" command
-c Reports on any open files in the file system containing File.
-f Reports on open instances of File only.
-u Provides the login name for local processes in parentheses after the process number.
-V Provides verbose output.
-x
Used in conjunction with -c or -f, reports on executable and loadable objects in addition to the standard fuser output.

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