Crontab Job Question

[mundell]

Hello Everyone,

I am needing to make a cron job so that I can have my Redhat Linux 7.2 server everynight at certain time do tftp to a ip then do a put command to send file to a windows server what command in a cron job would I need to do this I have tried couple different things dosn't work. Can someone help out Thanks.

Robb

 

[haneo]

just see the poste that i write. up in the list !

 

[pcunix]

It would help to know what didn't work

First, you could be having trouble with cron. That happenes sometimes because cron's environment is not the same as yours, so commands that work in your shell don't work from cron. There are simple ways to be sure that doesn't happen such as using full path names for all command and explicitly setting environment variables. See

http://pcunix.com/Unixart/cron.html

for more details.

Or perhaps your problem is using ftp from a script. There aere actually numerous ways to do that. If you script is complex, I'd use Kermit.

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftpclient.html

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftpscripts.html

but simple tasks can be done directly with .netrc files:

http://pcunix.com/Bofcusm/278.html

has examples of using that, and even more simole tasks can often be done just with "here" files:

HOST=xxx
FTPUSER=xxx
FTPPASSWORD=xxx
ftp -n $HOST <<-EOF
user $FTPUSER $FTPPASSWORD
cd /wherever
bin
prompt off
mget '*'
bye
EOF





Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

tony@pcunix.com

 

[haneo]

you can get a script exemple at:

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue34/izquierdo.html

hope that elp ;-)

 

[Guest_imported]

I am trying to TFTP and not FTP

 

[ifincham]

Hi,





First - have you got the tftp rpm installed ? (rpm -q tftp). If not install that then modify the script based on the tftp commands as per the man page -->

http://www.linux.com/develop/man/1/tftp/

Hope this helps