If you're using FTP, some FTP clients support ls -l, but it sounds like you need a lot more than that.
If sftp's an option, have you considered rsync? You can consider it to be "cp on steroids". It's an extremely common UNIX utility which connects with ssh (same protocol as sftp) and does a lot of what you're asking for, especially the verification of files.
i.e. you can do rsync -c localfile1 localfile2 localfile3 localfile4 user@hostname:/path/to/remotefolder and it will copy and verify. It will even skip already-existing files based on checksum.
It would make your task very easy.
Code:
exec 2>errorlog
N=0
while ! rsync -c localfile1 localfile2 localfile3 localfile4 user@hostname:/path/to/remotefolder
do
N=$((N+1))
if [ "$N" -ge 5 ]
then
echo "rsync couldn't transfer files, see errlog" >&2
exit 1
fi
done
echo "rsync successfully transferred files"
Thanks Much Corona688., appreciate your help.
I have to implement this functionality using FTP.
Ok., since you have given me the above code I would like to ask few questions.
A. Using FTP method :- Will it not be possible to verify the file transferred and can the restart ability of the script be not achievable?
If so can you please throw some light?
B. Is using SFTP less secure when compared to FTP -s to transfer files from AIX to Mainframe.? Will there be any loss in data .i.e., will the data get corrupted?
And per my understanding if we go with SFTP method, we can used rsync to copy as well as verify the file.
Even in case of failure, restartability is assured(i.e, only files that are not copied will be copied to the mainframe).
Update:- I will not be able to use SFTP
Last edited by TechGyaann; 12-21-2017 at 05:28 PM..
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when i am trying to ftp to a newly cretaed mainframe GDG for the first time,i am getting the following error...
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Hi All,
I am new to this site, I have a requirement where in i have to FTP a file from mainframe to Unix box.
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Hi Experts...
Greetings for the day..!
I just want to FTP the files to mainframe system..
my code is not working..and also i need to put the files in a particular directory in a specific naming format...
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
rsync_selinux
rsync_selinux(8) rsync Selinux Policy documentation rsync_selinux(8)NAME
rsync_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the rsync daemon
DESCRIPTION
Security-Enhanced Linux secures the rsync server via flexible mandatory access control.
FILE_CONTEXTS
SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type. Policy governs the access daemons have to these files. If
you want to share files using the rsync daemon, you must label the files and directories public_content_t. So if you created a special
directory /var/rsync, you would need to label the directory with the chcon tool.
chcon -t public_content_t /var/rsync
To make this change permanent (survive a relabel), use the semanage command to add the change to file context configuration:
semanage fcontext -a -t public_content_t "/var/rsync(/.*)?"
This command adds the following entry to /etc/selinux/POLICYTYPE/contexts/files/file_contexts.local:
/var/rsync(/.*)? system_u:object_r:publix_content_t:s0
Run the restorecon command to apply the changes:
restorecon -R -v /var/rsync/
SHARING FILES
If you want to share files with multiple domains (Apache, FTP, rsync, Samba), you can set a file context of public_content_t and pub-
lic_content_rw_t. These context allow any of the above domains to read the content. If you want a particular domain to write to the pub-
lic_content_rw_t domain, you must set the appropriate boolean. allow_DOMAIN_anon_write. So for rsync you would execute:
setsebool -P allow_rsync_anon_write=1
BOOLEANS
system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy settings.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>.
SEE ALSO selinux(8), rsync(1), chcon(1), setsebool(8), semanage(8)dwalsh@redhat.com 17 Jan 2005 rsync_selinux(8)
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