On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 02:58:58PM -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: > You could also just setup a separate system that the user must scp the > file to. If it is not on that system then it has not be delivered. You > keep the user from having shell access to that system so they can not > change the time stamps. Or simply move all files from the incoming directory to an 'accepted' directory at the exact due date via cron. Then, anything found in the incoming directory is certainly from too late, no matter what its date. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>