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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Ftp bash script appends to file using cron instead of coping new file Post 302949449 by hicksd8 on Friday 10th of July 2015 04:03:04 PM
Old 07-10-2015
I've been reading this thread with some interest and curiosity so this is just "thinking out loud" without any real experience to draw on.

However, I would be asking whether the cron ftp job actually closed off the ftp session plus whether the next cron run picks up the old session. Certainly, running the script interactively would definitely create a new ftp connection. I would initially check via a process listing whether, when the cron job has supposedly finished, that the associated processes are gone and the ftp session is no longer there. I currently can't think of any other way the cron job could append to an old file unless it's still connected to it and has it held open.

I'll carry on thinking about this one.
 

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NAME

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