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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users AIX - FTP Post 302432949 by zaxxon on Monday 28th of June 2010 04:59:12 AM
Old 06-28-2010
Checking if network is up before you try to ftp will not help if the network goes while a transfer is happening.
I don't know how long a ftp-client usually "hangs" until it receives a timeout and if it really spits out a return code >1 in that case (it should). Different ftp-clients might have different options for this.

ftp is not encrypted and unsecure - maybe switch to ssh/scp/sftp and set up public key authentication, if it is an option. You would also not have to write clear passwords in a file.
You can use helpful options with scp for example like:
Code:
    ConnectionAttempts
    ConnectTimeout

see man scp.

You can script a lot of things around it to make it more waterproof for your problem case, but generally I'd say you should try to solve that network problem as priority and implement the ssh/scp/sftp protocol suite.
 

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FTP_CONNECT(3)								 1							    FTP_CONNECT(3)

ftp_connect - Opens an FTP connection

SYNOPSIS
resource ftp_connect (string $host, [int $port = 21], [int $timeout = 90]) DESCRIPTION
ftp_connect(3) opens an FTP connection to the specified $host. PARAMETERS
o $host - The FTP server address. This parameter shouldn't have any trailing slashes and shouldn't be prefixed with ftp://. o $port - This parameter specifies an alternate port to connect to. If it is omitted or set to zero, then the default FTP port, 21, will be used. o $timeout - This parameter specifies the timeout for all subsequent network operations. If omitted, the default value is 90 seconds. The timeout can be changed and queried at any time with ftp_set_option(3) and ftp_get_option(3). RETURN VALUES
Returns a FTP stream on success or FALSE on error. EXAMPLES
Example #1 ftp_connect(3) example <?php $ftp_server = "ftp.example.com"; // set up a connection or die $conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Couldn't connect to $ftp_server"); ?> SEE ALSO
ftp_close(3), ftp_ssl_connect(3). PHP Documentation Group FTP_CONNECT(3)
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