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I am writing a script that will be placed in a crontab, which basically retrieves a file that is overwritten everyday (with current customer data) and then sent to another company. I was wondering what the best way to ensure that ftp was successful and notification of a success or failure message. Not real sure how to do this, was thinking ftp response codes but not sure how to retrieve them? Any suggestions?

you can use wget instead of ftp, wget has crash recovery so it will keep trying to recover the file if the connection fails, then, you can check if your file exists on the directory you recently downloaded it. I have something like your script on my system, once the file has been retrieved, the script runs the program that uses that file, if the program doesn't recognize the file format (maybe the file is corrupt) it deletes the new one, roll back to the older file and sends me a email about the problem.

or do somenthing like this (tested with ksh):

Code:

THEFILE=some_important_file

if wget ftp://some.place/$THEFILE; then
        echo "OK-"
else
        echo "could not retrieve $THEFILE" | mail -s"$THEFILE ERROR!" admin@yoursite 
fi

..a email will send to you if an error ocurrs,

best regards!

you culd try ftp (hoast) then if the file that file you sent via e mail is the o the sever thne it works

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