paulm

Unfortunately the remote computer is unix and it's ftp client doesnt support arbitrary connect scripts. I could achieve this result using the .netrc file, but this is a system wide setting, so the connect script would run every time the computer connects to the UH server. I could disable this for interactive ftp sessions using the -n option, but this starts to look pretty hokey, and it'll only be a matter of time before the file gets deleted accidentaly.

Desquinn -
I was under the impression that cron was unavailable. When I type 'crontab -e' I get 'command not found'. Is there something I'm missing.
Using cron is not particularly elegant - I'd have to upload a flag file saying "Ok, I have the file now, you can delete it", but it would work.