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ncftpbatch

Section: User Commands (1)
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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).