<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>ncftpbatch(1) manual page</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor=white> <H2>Name</H2> <blockquote> <P> <b> ncftpbatch</b> - Batch FTP job processor daemon </blockquote> <H2><B>Synopsis</B></H2> <blockquote> <P> <B>ncftpbatch</B> -d <P> <B>ncftpbatch</B> -l <P> <B>ncftpbatch</B> -D </blockquote> <center> <p> <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="sales@ncftp.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="NcFTP Client"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="NcFTP"> <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="2"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> <input type="hidden" name="tax" value="0"> <input type="hidden" name="bn" value="PP-DonationsBF"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc-donate.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make a donation!"> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> </form> </center> <H2><B>Options</B></H2> <P> Command line flags: <blockquote> <DL> <DT><B>-d</B> </DT> <DD> Begin background processing of FTP jobs in the current user's <tt>$HOME/.ncftp/spool</tt> directory. This returns immediately, because a daemon process is spawned and ran in the background. </DD> <DT><B>-l</B> </DT> <DD> Lists the contents of the user's job queue. </DD> <DT><B>-D</B> </DT> <DD> This is like <B>-d</B>, except that the process does not become a daemon. </DD> </DL> </blockquote> <H2><B>Description</B></H2> <P> This program is responsible for processing background FTP requests. It is normally only run by <I>ncftp</I> and not manually by a human being, however you can run it to manually process the FTP job queue. <P> The jobs are spool files written to a user's <tt>$HOME/.ncftp/spool</tt> directory and have a special format and file-naming convention (which contains when the job is to be run). <I>ncftp</I> runs this program when it needs to, but if the <I>ncftpbatch</I> daemon dies unexpectedly the jobs that are left in the queue will not be processed until another instance of <I>ncftpbatch</I> is run. <P> <I>ncftpget</I> and <I>ncftpput</I> can also be used to submit jobs for batch processing, using those utilities' <B>-b</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 <i>ncftpspooler</i> for more information on how to do that). <H2><B>Diagnostics</B></H2> <P> <I>ncftpbatch</I> writes to its own log file, the <tt>$HOME/.ncftp/spool/log</tt> file. This file should be examined to determine if any <I>ncftpbatch</I> processes are actively working on jobs. <H2>Author</H2> <blockquote> <P> Mike Gleason, <a href="http://www.ncftp.com">NcFTP Software</a>. </blockquote> <H2>See Also</H2> <blockquote> <P> <I>ncftpput(1)</I>, <I>ncftpget(1),</I> <I>ncftp(1)</I>, <I>ftp(1)</I>, <I>rcp(1)</I>, <I>tftp(1)</I>. <P> <I>LibNcFTP</I> (<a href="http://www.ncftp.com/libncftp/">http://www.ncftp.com/libncftp/</a>). </blockquote> </BODY></HTML>
