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FTP run by cron only works if user logged in?

I set up a cron job to FTP to another machine. If I have not logged in before the time the cron is set to run, then the ftp program won't connect. I have run this cron on other boxes (diff networks) and it works fine...it is just this one. If anyone has any suggestions as to what would be causing this problem and how I could fix it, I would really appreciate the advice.

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Looks like automounter issue...Isnt where you are trying to connect a NFS filsystem?

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RE: FTP issues

The machine that I am trying to ftp to is an NFS Server. However, I know that it is not the machine that I am trying to ftp to...because if I ftp to that machine from different locations it works fine. The interesting thing is that the cron job can ftp any day that I have logged into the machine running the cron.

The problem is more like the machine running the ftp has some way of configuring the cron such that it won't ftp a file owned by a user in a users home dir if the user has not logged in that day? Is that possible? Could an automount issue cause this? The rest of the program runs fine. My ftp log records only ouput "Not connected."

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The automounter will mount the FS upon request, so typically wanting to access a directory that is NFS with automounter ends often with a "file or dir not found" or cat access message on FIRST attempt -> you try again and it works...
I used to put in my ftp scripts something like " dir " ls, pwd just so the automounter had time to do its work then ftped...

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It was a vpn client problem so I had to create a program on the local machine to ftp into the remote machine to wake the vpn client so that it could then ftp back to the local machine.

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Thanks for sharing!

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