Subject: RE: ftpconversions

From: "Walton, David" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 16:55:27 -0800

That's a clever approach!  But wouldn't the ftpd send them the script
rather than executing it?

Dave

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> 
> David,
> Why not create hard links (using the target file names) to the perl
> script,
> which then does the mod and returns the target file (from some unseen
> directory).
> Of course the problem will be that all targets will hame same owner,
> permissions and file size, date etc attributes, so knowlegable users
> will
> become sus and think either the files are wrong or start looking
> around.
> 
> Regards Geofft
> 
>