Shell Programming and Scripting

i think ftp works fine within a script, i use it all the time (if scp is not available).

if you are going to use mput, you will also need to put 'prompt' in the ftp section to turn off prompting

and methyl suggested, good to open ftp by itself (which is what the script does), do the same steps the script is

enter 'ftp'
enter 'open whatever_the_host_is'
enter 'user root whatever_password_is'

see what happens. setting up another user for the ftp account isnt a bad idea either

Hi

I have created .netrc file and given permissions to it as chmod 600 .netrc
As it is a . file, not able to see it on the directory(fine).

Please tell me now. How to use that file in my FTP Script as this file should be replaced with my filelist.txt

.netrc looks like below :


machine 192.168.100.1 login userid password userpass
machine 192.168.100.1 login userid password userpass