Hey everyone, thanks for the input.

My FTP server does indeed support post processing. Should have thought 
of that. However, I'd rather not couple this particular process to the 
FTP server if possible.

I read up on fuser and lsof, and will experiment with those options 
first.

I have some options now, so thanks.

-- gw

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