sftp used that way requires that authentication keys be set up on the remote host.
What local user is authenticated to remoteuser on the remotehost? And is the script running as that user, ie., do you su to the required local user?
I am trying to run a sript on cron to SFTP data to a company. Private and public keys are set up.
When I run this manully it works fine, however it was failing when run on cron. I have narrowed down the problem - it fails at the code that says if the error code is 0 then continue
. . . I... (2 Replies)
I am using a script to transfer a file from a unix host to another unix host. The code snippet for sftp in the script is as below.
sftp -oIdentityFile=$ID_FILE_NAME -oNumberOfPasswordPrompts=0 $REMOTE_USERID@$REMOTE_HOST <<EOF
cd incoming
put $REPORT_FILE... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am running simple script to automate sftp transfer to remote box. I have setup public/private keys to have sftp connect automatically and have test script that list remote directory:
#!/bin/ksh
echo "OK, starting now..."
sftp userid@host <<EOI
cd dir
ls -lt
bye
EOI... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have been searching for older posts and I've found many entries with identical problems, but I was not able to find the solution (or when I thought I found it, my trial didn't worked :(). Anyway, here is my question.
I wrote a sftp.sh file that runs perfect from command line. It uses scp... (6 Replies)
Hi Newbie here
I am having problems with automating sFTP transfers.
Just to save time - SCP is not an option as sFTP is stipulated by controllers of far end server.
Ineed to automate sFTP transfer of a single file, once a day to a remote server to which i have no control over.
I am using:... (6 Replies)
Hello -
I have a production stream that is scheduled with cron to run each Monday morning. The jobs in the stream perform tasks including
FTP get, load to a DB table, and report processing.
About a month ago I was directed to begin using sftp in these jobs and since then the jobs... (12 Replies)
Hello,
I am facing a very strange problem when I run my script manuallu ./Fetchcode which is using to connect with MKS integrity from linux end it workks fine but when I run it from cron it doesn't work.Can someone help me
1) How could I check my script when it is running from cron like... (3 Replies)
Help. My script is working fine when executed manually but the cron seems not to catch up the command when registered.
The script is as follow:
#!/bin/sh
for file in file_1.txt file_2.txt file_3.txt
do
awk '{ print "0" }' $file > tmp.tmp
mv tmp.tmp $file
done
And the cron... (2 Replies)
Dears,
I am new to linux scripting and I was look for a way to auto login to a server using sftp to download a file.
I found one and it is working fine. But i don't know the meaning of <<EOF in the code. Any one explain it to me:
#!/bin/sh
HOST=yourservername
USER=yourusername ... (1 Reply)
hi Team,
I am connecting from one (A) linux server to another(C)/any linux server by sftp
on A linux server:
sftp userid@C
password:
mget is Not working fine
I am using mget to pull the files. it shows mget as invalid command.
But from (B) Linux server to (C) /to Any server Linux... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: johnsnow
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LEARN ABOUT XFREE86
sftp-server
sftp-server(1M) System Administration Commands sftp-server(1M)NAME
sftp-server - SFTP server subsystem
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server
DESCRIPTION
sftp-server implements the server side of the SSH File Transfer Protocol as defined in the IETF draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer.
sftp-server is a subsystem for sshd(1M) and must not be run directly. There are no options or config settings.
To enable the sftp-server subsystem for sshd add the following to /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server
See sshd_config(4) for a description of the format and contents of that file.
There is no relationship between the protocol used by sftp-server and the FTP protocol (RFC 959) provided by in.ftpd.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
FILES
/usr/lib/sftp-server
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWsshdu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Evolving |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO sftp(1), ssh(1), ssh-add(1), ssh-keygen(1), sshd(1M), sshd_config(4), attributes(5)
To view license terms, attribution, and copyright for OpenSSH, the default path is /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWsshdr/install/copyright. If the
Solaris operating environment has been installed anywhere other than the default, modify the given path to access the file at the installed
location.
AUTHOR
Markus Friedl
SunOS 5.10 30 Jul 2003 sftp-server(1M)