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Special Forums IP Networking Automated FTP task Post 6154 by LowOrderBit on Thursday 30th of August 2001 12:13:50 PM
Old 08-30-2001
thanks again.. this is what i have for the script (after wrestling with Vi for about half an hour.)

text nested in /* */ is not actually in the script, these are my questions to the forum...

#!/usr/bin/ksh
/* is this neccessary, or can i run it in the default shell?*/

HOST=10.0.0.3
USER=root
PASSWD=*****

/* what exactly do these two lines do? */
exec4>&1
ftp -nv >&4 2>&4 |&

print -p open $HOST
print -p user $USER $PASSWD
print -p cd /
print -p cd /u/home
print -p lc ..
print -p binary
print -p put rwc8.tar.gz

wait
/* does this wait until the ftp completes, or is it expecting a number? */

exit 0

i pretty much copied exactly what perderabo posted a few replies up...

two questions:

1) is it ok to run this job as root or should i create an ftp user for this task??? i really dont like the fact that the root password is in clear text in this script.. if someone stumbled across it and opened it they would have the root pw..

2) i would like the daemon to send me a mail with the results job.. the text that is spit out when the ftp session completes would be fine, just so i know how much data was transferred.


thanks again..

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