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ncftpbatch(1)          DragonFly General Commands Manual         ncftpbatch(1)


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).


DIAGNOSTICS

       ncftpbatch writes to its own log file, the $HOME/.ncftp/spool/log file.
       This file should be examined to determine if any ncftpbatch processes
       are actively working on jobs.


AUTHOR

       Mike Gleason, NcFTP Software (http://www.ncftp.com).


SEE ALSO

       ncftp(1), ncftpput(1), ncftpget(1).

ncftpbatch                      NcFTP Software                   ncftpbatch(1)

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