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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Data gathering script Post 302129185 by mesoeast on Sunday 29th of July 2007 05:42:20 PM
Old 07-29-2007
Data gathering script
I am pretty new at shell scripting, but I managed to make a primative shell script to connect from my webserver (bluehost) to an external data server via ftp or sftp or whatever I need. This script is :
Code:
#!/bin/sh
HOST='ftp.host.com'
USER='username'
PASSWD='password'
FILE='file'

ftp -n $HOST <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
lcd /path/to/lcd
get $FILE
quit
END_SCRIPT
exit 0

This script worked on my machine, but when I uploaded it to try it on bluehost, it did not work. I guess ftp and sftp from the webserver is not allowed (maybe I should have already known this). I am allowed ssh access to bluehost, however. I was wondering if there was any other way to get data from an ftp server, and then put that data to my webserver? Should I be trying a different shell script, or take it an move to something like php or perl? Thank you for any information, I searched the forums and I'm pretty sure there is not an answer to this already.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

ftp

ftp(4)								   File Formats 							    ftp(4)

NAME

       ftp - FTP client configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/default/ftp

DESCRIPTION

       Use  the ftp file to configure the behavior of the FTP client. Lines that begin with a hash symbol ("# ") are treated as comment  lines and
       are ignored.

   Behavior Directives
       The ftp file supports the following behavior directives:

       FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST=yes | no

	   The ls command of the ftp client sends an NLST to the FTP Server by default. Several non-Solaris clients send LIST instead. In order to
	   make the Solaris ftp client send LIST when the ls command is issued, set FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST to no. The value of FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST is yes
	   by default.

       If the user sets a value for FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST in the user's environment, this value will override any FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST directive that	is
       specified in /etc/default/ftp.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5)  for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWbipr			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ftp(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    22 Oct 2002 							    ftp(4)
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