On 8/19/09 3:55 AM, "Dengxule" <dengxule@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a crontab command to execuate my php-script every half an hour. > > The mission of the php-script is to open a file(log file), examine it. > > The target file(log file) is transported to local every half an hour. > > I've no idea how much time it will costs and on the other hand, i want to > make sure the file i'm openning is Completely Written. > > Any instruction will be grateful. perhaps you could use cronolog (http://cronolog.org/) to rotate the log files every half hour? that way you could be sure that the file you open to process/copy is one that cronolog has finished writing to. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php