FTP Help 2

[alberton]

Hi,

I´m not an experteese of solaris programation.
I will appreciate if someone can help me creating a script which put some solaris system files in a Windows directory through ftp protocol, and then repeat the operation every 10 minutes.

I've tryed this one but doesn't work:

ftp -n 129.200.100.120 <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER beto
quote PASS *******
cd /cms/cmstables
bin
put 'chr*'
quit
END_SCRIPT
exit 0

Thanks in advance.

 

[Annihilannic]

If you are going to specify filenames using a wildcard you need to use mput, not put. You may also need to use the prompt command before it to turn off the prompt confirming which files to transfer.

Annihilannic.

 

[alberton]

Would it be something like this:

ftp -n 129.200.100.120 <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER beto
quote PASS *******
cd /cms/cmstables
bin
prompt
mput 'chr*'
quit
END_SCRIPT
exit 0

How I can execute this script to check it? I mean is there a command to execute this script?
Thanks

 

[KenCunningham]

The 'command' is what you called it, as long as you've made it executable (chmod 755 filename).

Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks - make sure most are the former.

 

[alberton]

Thanks for the answers.
And how I do to repeat the process every 10 minutes?
Regards

 

[KenCunningham]

You can put it in 'cron' (man crontab or look for examples), but basically something like:

00,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /path/to/command script

would call the script every 10 minotes 24/7 if that's what you want. Bear in mind that you may have to supply the appropriate environment to cron (PATH etc) and/or use fully qualified pathnames in the script itself so that cron 'knows' where to look for things.

An alternative might be to put a sleep 600 in your script and loop back to the start of the script afterwards, but this has the disadvantage that it will not restart after a shut down unless you put it in a startup directory such as /etc/rc2.d or start it explicitly on reboot.

Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks - make sure most are the former.

 

[alberton]

Thank you very much for the answer.
I will try as soon as possible and I'll post the result.
Thank you guys.

 

[alberton]

Hi,

I have created a file with the above sintax and then made a chmod 755 but it doesn't do anything or at least the file is not transfered.
I do the steps manually and it works.
Any clue about what am I doing wrong?

 

[Annihilannic]

What is the output of crontab -l?

Annihilannic.

 

[KenCunningham]

...did you include explicit environment variables as I suggested?

Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks - make sure most are the former.

 

[alberton]

KenCunningham, I added the variable names, but even it do not make the ftp connection.
It receive this message:
129.200.100.104: bad port number-- SCRIPT
usage: ftp host-name [port]
Not connected
Not connected
?Invalid command
Not connected
Interactive mode off
Not connected

My SCRIPT is this one:

HOST='129.200.100.104 21'
USER='macbeto'
PASSWD='******'
FILE='/'



ftp $HOST <<END SCRIPT
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
$FILE
bin
prompt
mput "beto.*"
quit
END SCRIPT
exit 0


The crontab -l show my line cron:
00,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /beto1

What I see is the script stops just in the ftp connection, but I do the same command manually and it connects right.
Thanks for the answers.

 

[Annihilannic]

When you use here documents, i.e. << SOME_TAG, it needs to be only one word. You could make it END_SCRIPT instead of END SCRIPT.

Annihilannic.

 

[alberton]

Thank you Annihilannic,

That was the problem.
Regards

 

[KenCunningham]

Good spot Annihilannic! Worthy of a star perhaps alberton?

Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks - make sure most are the former.

 

[alberton]

Of course it is worthy for me. I didn't know about the stars.

Thank you.

 

[armylogman]

Here is what I use to move files to a WINXP system

ip=000.000.000.00
USER=admin
PASSWD=ramsey
ftp -d -n -i -v $ip <<SCRIPT
user $USER $PASSWD
lcd /$ric
cd $ric
bin
hash
mput xxxxxx.*"
quit
SCRIPT