Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

SCENARIO:
I will be FTP'ing a file to a remote server then running an FTP Script on the destination server remotely. Can I achieve this via FTP and the "quote" command, anyone got experience using this?

FTP Script (untested as I can't FTP the files freely..live environment)

Code:

open Server
user username password
cd destination directory
lcd source directory
put file renamedasthis
quote ksh /thisdirectory/autotrans  /thiscript/ftpthefilesomewhere
close
bye

Whilst I am assuming quote can handle this, is there a better/different way of executing the remote FTP script (easy way)?

Unless the remote FTP server supports a ksh subcommand, the ftp quote subcommand cannot be used for this purpose.

The purpose of the quote subcommand is to bypass the FTP interface of your local host. It is typically used to send commands that the remote FTP server understands, but that the local FTP client does not understand.

thanks,

I think the remote server does support the ksh commands..because i took the command from that server (i just need to execute it remotely).

I just wanted to make sure FTP could execute the script and it wasn't limited to just unix commands (like chmod or user etc)??? (another ftp script in this case).

I think you are mistaken.
The ftp command only responds to ftp commands.

As others advise, the "site" command is for local non-standard commands (see "man ftpd" on the target computer).

What Operating Systems and Shell (with versions) do you have on the source and destination computer?
Do you have administrator access to both computers?

Source Server = Solaris 10
Destination Server = Solaris 9

I have root access to both servers.

I will be transferring 1 file from to destination from source, then I need to move that file from the destination to another windows server (FTP already in place for that part, that is why I would like to remotely activate that script)

what do you mean by sell version?

As you are using plain FTP between the servers, I assume that you trust the network to handle unencryted traffic. Could you consider a command to follow the FTP code you have written to put the file to issue a remote shell command to the destination?

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
#
ftp -n <<-EOFTP
open $destination
user bob password
cd $target_dir
put $file $targetfile
quit
EOFTP

rsh $destination "$shell_command with parameters"

You will need to open up the destination to accept the remote shell command, but if that is the way to go, we can talk about that later.

Many here will probably suggest that SFTP is a better method, and with that you would SSH remotely run the command, but I cannot comment on how to set that up.



I hope that this is useful.

Robin,
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK

io'll google rsh tomorrow

SSH is a possibility, how can I achieve it though!?