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09-01-2008

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FTP - shell script question

Hi All,

I had a question on something which i have trying to add to my current shell script which does FTP of files from my local machine to a remote server.

I have 5 files which i zip and FTP them on daily basis to a remote server. My script is as below:
############################
#!/bin/sh
temp="put $1"
ftp xxxx.this is IP address of remote machine.com << EOFFile
myusername
binary
$temp
quit
EOFFile
exit 0
############################

I am successfull in doing this activity.

But sometimes there is some problem with the remote FTP machine the FTP fails.

My problem is that i am only able to determine this failure after manually logging in checking for the files on remote machine.

My remote files look like this on FTP machine, all the files have the same name each day and The system date of this matches with the local machine:

08-31-08 10:00PM 55182 help1.zip
08-31-08 10:00PM 64861 help2.zip
08-31-08 10:00PM 57915 help3.zip
08-31-08 10:01PM 224245 help4.zip
08-31-08 10:01PM 2388 help5.zip

Is there a way i can add in my script or have an external script that checks for these files on FTP machine( probablly compare with local machine date stamp and FTP date stamp to determine the latest files are there).

Please suggest

Thanks,
Sandy

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ftpconfig

ftpconfig(1M)						  System Administration Commands					     ftpconfig(1M)

NAME

       ftpconfig - set up anonymous FTP

SYNOPSIS

       ftpconfig [ftpdir]

       ftpconfig -d ftpdir

DESCRIPTION

       The ftpconfig script is executed by the super user to set up anonymous FTP. Anonymous FTP allows users to remotely log on to the FTP server
       by specifying the user name  ftp or anonymous and the user's email  address as password. The anonymous users  are  logged  on  to  the  FTP
       Server  and  given  access to a restricted file area with its own file system root. See chroot(2). The FTP area has  its own minimal system
       files.

       This command will copy and set up all the components needed to operate an anonymous FTP server, including creating the  ftp  user  account,
       creating  device  nodes,  copying  /usr/lib files, and copying timezone data.  The passwd and group files set up have been stripped down to
       prevent malicious users from finding login names on the server.	The anonymous file area will be placed	under  ftpdir.	If  the  ftp  user
       account already exists, then the current FTP area is used, and the system files in it are updated. All other files are left untouched. This
       command should be run to update the anonymous FTP area's configuration whenever a system patch is installed, or the system is upgraded.

OPTIONS

       -d     Create a new or update an existing ftpdir without creating or updating the ftp user account. Use this option when creating guest FTP
	      user accounts.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       ftpdir	 The absolute pathname of the directory under which the anonymous FTP area is set up.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0     Successful completion

       1     Improper usage of the command

       2     Command failed

ATTRIBUTES

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

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWftpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ftpaddhost(1M), in.ftpd(1M), useradd(1M), chroot(2), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    1 May 2003							     ftpconfig(1M)

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