Question

I am starting an FTP session using:

“C:\Program Files\FTP
Server\msftpsrvr.exe” -start

Now I want it to wait until it has find a file with a specified string.

Details:
I am using Mini core ftp on my server and Winscp on my client.
The client’s time schedule keeps changing. I follow the following steps for automation:

On server

1. msftpsrvr.exe -start

On client:

1. cd "C:\Program Files\WinSCP"

2. winscp.exe /console /script=script to get backup and put file with status

No the server should read the status after copy is finished and then stop the ftp server.

How can I tell the server to pause untill that file is updated with “done” string?

Answer 1

Found the solution myself, the solution is very asynchronous.

Here is what I have done.

Started mftp server, after the backup finishes – it writes a flag to a file. The client side gets the file and reads the flag (polling every 30 min) and start copy.

It is not a good solution. but works for me