Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, id like to ask a question about .netrc. Id like to have 2 entries for a particular machine, but with different ftp userid's ie

Code:

machine 172.19.8.26 login dcm password dcm
macdef job1
bin
hash
bye

machine 172.19.8.26 login ppp password ppp
macdef job2
bin
hash
bye

this code DOES NOT WORK by the way !!!

normally i reference a "macdef" by its name to have multiple jobs running under the same machine/ftp user, but i have now come accross the scenario where i need to run jobs from different ftp accounts on the same box,

can anybody help ?

It might matter on your OS - I couldn't get some to work either in testing.

Try the following:

Code:

machine 172.19.8.26 login dcm password dcm
macdef init
bin
hash
bye

machine 172.19.8.26 login ppp password ppp
macdef init
bin
hash
bye

You do n't want to have two different .netrc files
one for each account ?

these arent unix user accounts they are accounts on the remote FTP server, all my scripts run from a single unix account called "scripts_user" and therefore i only have one .netrc file. I do not want to have to run the script from a different unix account just because I have 2 different FTP accounts on the same remote FTP server

any ideas ???

ok, i dont understand ow you would call this from a script ???

You don't call it from a script - it's automatic when you are running ftp. If you run the ftp command from a script to a machine in the list (in the .netrc file), then it should automatically run those commands. Set up your .netrc with a system you want to go to via ftp, put in some non-harmful commands such as ls, bin, and dir, ftp to the server and see if it runs those commands. If it does, try actually sending a file via a command in the .netrc. Try both of these via manual and cron. Once you see how it works, then put in what you need for production.

sorry, I dont think you undestand my question..I use .netrc for hundreds of scripts to many ftp servers. but with your suggestion, you have placed 2 entries for the same machine next to each other in the same .netrc file but with different ftp username and password . So based on this ,when you issue your ftp command (manually or from a script, it doesnt matter) ie `ftp 172.19.9.100` then it has to make a decision on what entry in .netrc to use , so how does it determine which username/password to login as ????? this is my question. When you have multple jobs on the same FTP server (all using a single ftp username and password) i use the macdef parameter to tell .netrc which job to run...but that is not applicable in this case