[FX.php List] Slightly confused and need a push, please

[Derek Bastille]

Hi All,
   I hope that this is not too much of a simple question.  I may have  
gotten myself overly confused enough by going through several books/web  
sites  :-P

   Anyway, I have a Unix system that is generating usage statistics.   
Each job record is one line of a text file that is produced each day:

single::group1:elson:4:142732:142739:7::570928:562504:1.000:0.250: 
30296:050429 at 083449:jsplit
...

   I have a corresponding FMPRo 7 database that is being hosted by  
Server Advanced that I have previously been manually  
converting/importing the file into.  What I'd like to do is to set up  
an automated job on the Unix system that runs each day's file through a  
perl formatting script and then posts it to the server via cURL.

   I've gone through the various FX.php and FMPro7 SA documents and am  
really torn as to which is the best way to approach this:

-- convert the file to an XML file and then send it directly to FMPRo7  
SA?
-- create an FX.php script that takes a request and then it does the  
post to FMPro?

   In either case, the difficulty is in how to best get the formatted  
data from the Unix system to the right place on the server.  I could  
use a 'curl -F filename http://blah/foo.php' but how should I format  
the file?

   If there is a website or other RTFM that I should know about, that  
would be great.  Otherwise, any pointers on which way I should start  
moving would be really helpful.  Thanks!

Derek