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# 22  
Old 04-05-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
scp should also be available, if that helps.

i know, but our login is only allowed through sftp, all other protocols are blocked. :-)

(if this many experts don't know the answer, i'm feeling better already about not knowing it myself Smilie )

*** edit ***
my bad, it is not the protocol which was blocked. It is the user we got to log on is restricted to have only sftp acces :-)
Last edited by Kerberos; 04-05-2012 at 11:42 AM..
# 23  
Old 04-05-2012
Okay, possibly an outlandish punt, but could you get all the files you want to send into a single compressed tar file, delete those from local disk and when you are happy that is complete, binary SFTP the compressed tar file? Of course the other end would have to know that's what you are doing and be ready to uncompress and extract.

Just trying to think of alternatives. Sorry if it's no use. Smilie




Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
# 24  
Old 04-05-2012
He has no ssh access, hence no way to extract it on the far end.
# 25  
Old 04-05-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kerberos
i know, but our login is only allowed through sftp, all other protocols are blocked. :-)
They are the same protocol, literally. They use the same port and same authentication system, and do identical things -- transfer files -- in an identical way.

It's simple enough to block shell logins, but blocking scp without blocking sftp? Strange and unlikely. If anything, they're more likely to have scp than sftp, sftp being kind of optional.
Last edited by Corona688; 04-05-2012 at 11:26 AM..
# 26  
Old 04-05-2012
I know that there is a no SSH to drive it himself, however the other end is moving the files off as they arrive, so perhaps that can be altered to expect a compressed tar file, was my thought.

It depends what the receiving company is prepared to do after they "fixed" a working system that allowed Kerberos to send single files and therefore delete single files in a controlled way. Unfortunately now you want to open a single connection and move all of the files.


Another alternate would be to fire in something like into the sftp batch file:-
Code:
put localfile1 remotefile1
!rm localfile1 || kill `ps -f|grep sft[p]|cut -f3 -d " "`
put localfile2 remotefile2
!rm localfile2 || kill `ps -f|grep sft[p]|cut -f3 -d " "`
put localfile3 remotefile3
!rm localfile3 || kill `ps -f|grep sft[p]|cut -f3 -d " "`

This will cause sftp to get a kill -15 and exit with $?=1 You can then pick that up with your shell script.


Does that help?



Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
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Kerberos
# 27  
Old 04-05-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by rbatte1
I know that there is a no SSH to drive it himself, however the other end is moving the files off as they arrive, so perhaps that can be altered to expect a compressed tar file, was my thought.

It depends what the receiving company is prepared to do after they "fixed" a working system that allowed Kerberos to send single files and therefore delete single files in a controlled way. Unfortunately now you want to open a single connection and move all of the files.


Another alternate would be to fire in something like into the sftp batch file:-
Code:
put localfile1 remotefile1
!rm localfile1 || kill `ps -f|grep sft[p]|cut -f3 -d " "`
put localfile2 remotefile2
!rm localfile2 || kill `ps -f|grep sft[p]|cut -f3 -d " "`
put localfile3 remotefile3
!rm localfile3 || kill `ps -f|grep sft[p]|cut -f3 -d " "`

This will cause sftp to get a kill -15 and exit with $?=1 You can then pick that up with your shell script.
i will try this one.

at the moment i had this

Code:
echo "Start of actual procedure"
echo "========================="
echo "Searching files other then ."$filetype" in "$tbtsftp" and move them to /tmp/invalid_filetype"
mkdir -p /tmp/invalid_filetype
find $tbtsftp -type f -not -name "*."$filetype -exec mv {} /tmp/invalid_filetype/ \;
echo
echo
echo "Deleting old commandlist if exists"
echo > $commandlist
echo
echo "Deleting old checkfile"
echo > $SFTPCHECK_PUT_RM
echo
echo "Creating commandlist"
echo
for FILE in `ls -tr $tbtsftp`; do
        echo "put "$FILE
        echo "cd "$remotepath_VAN >> $commandlist
        echo "put "$FILE >> $commandlist
        echo "!rm -f "$FILE
        echo "!rm -f "$FILE" | echo $? >> "$SFTPCHECK_PUT_RM  >> $commandlist
        
done

but appearantly he wont display echo $? (how it should) in my commandlist but echo 0 :s
# 28  
Old 04-05-2012
What is the purpose of the pipe there? echo reads nothing from standard input.

Did you perhaps mean || ? remove the file and, on failure, print the error code?
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