Hi Guys,

i have this lil challenge;

i am to implement an automated script that searches/scans a directory for files then picks and sends this files to a very remote server via an ftp link.
the challenge here is that the ftp link fails due to netwrk issues maybe;
i therefore need to develop a proactive means of detecting the present ftp session is no more active,then quit and restart a new session;
as this files are not supposed to stay inthis location for up to an hour.
someone help pls;

an idea from me - if you have netcat installed use :
nc -z server.com 21
the response should be : then echo $? will return 0, on failure will return 1. Check the error code and proceed based on the response.
-z flag just checks for a live listener / daemon on the remote port, without sending the data. This should ensure that the connection is OK.

Sounds like you should really be thinking about replacing that ftp link with something with sane error fallback and graceful degradation.

What would you suggest as an alternative to scripted FTP here? I guess there are tools better suited to failing links but have no idea what these would be?