When I run the script or run ftp manually, I have a PuTTY session open to the destination server and directory so that I can see the progress. From the script it takes approximately 6 minutes to transfer 1GB of data. When run interactively 1GB transfers in about 40 seconds.
Everything should be the same. FTP works from the script, it just behaves like it has been throttled. One more thing I thought of, our production server runs a script every 3 minutes during the first 10 days of the month that polls for ftp connections where data files are being submitted by our customers. I wonder if the previous admin (who did not document anything
) added something to the config which is throttling the bandwidth on non-interactive ftp connections?
What exactly does set-x do? I am pretty green, but I am catching on fast. I was a Windoze AD and Exchange admin for 10 years before I got this job and have been in the UNIX world for about 6 months.