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Old 01-12-2002
Automatic FTP
Hi,
We have a requirement to transfer(FTP) files created in a particular directory (In Solaris) to NT machine. Also this process neeeds to be automated.
I belive a command MAIL in UNIX could be used to find new files created in a directory, but this just sends the file list to the logged user.
Can anyone tell me how to accomplish this? Thanks.
# 2  
Old 01-12-2002
See this Thread
shaik786
# 3  
Old 01-13-2002
Thanks shaik, I went thru the thread. My requirement is this.

An application writes files in a directory, when ever a new file is written it has to FTPed to an NT box. This process of transfering the file has to be automated.
# 4  
Old 01-14-2002
You can probably write a script which every 'x' secs checks for files in the directory. If there are any, you 'ftp' them. Ofcourse if ftp is to be automated, netrc is the solution, and the Thread pointed above can be referred for that.
shaik786
# 5  
Old 01-16-2002
Is your NT box running an FTP server? If not, then you'll need a different way. One good way might be Samba. You can simply place files out on a share, and the NT box has them always available to it.

If so, expect (I think the website is http://expect.nist.gov ) may work as well... It stores the passwords in plain text, as does a .netrc file, but I've had luck with it...
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Old 01-17-2002
netrc seems to be a sol to FTP, but I didnt want to write a batch job to monitor the directory for addition of new files. I thought if its possible to trigger an event whenever a new files are added to the dir?

About the EXPECT, it seems to do a lot of things and just started to go thru the doc.

Thanks for the info Smilie
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