UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi everyone,

can someone please tell me what can be wrong here?

Script:
ftp -v -n $FTPSERVER<< EOP >$LOGFILE 2>&1
user $USERID $PASSWD
ascii
site lrecl=500
site cyl
site PRI=600
site SEC=300
lcd $FTPLOCALDIR
cd $FTPTARGETDIR
put $SOURCEFILE $TARGETFILE
quit
EOP

Output:
Connected to usfshux01-e1.amer.umusic.net.
220 USFSHUX01 FTP server (Version 4.1 Fri Nov 21 11:01:48 CST 2003) ready.
331 Password required for ftpuser.
230-Last unsuccessful login: Tue Jul 3 07:23:02 PDT 2007 on ssh from 10.131.13.17
230-Last login: Thu Jul 12 04:19:37 PDT 2007 on ftp from ::ffff:10.131.50.155
230 User ftpuser logged in.
200 Type set to A; form set to N.
500 'SITE LREC=500': command not understood.
500 'SITE CYL': command not understood.
500 'SITE PRI=600': command not understood.
500 'SITE SEC=300': command not understood.
Local directory now /taf/dev/workfiles
250 CWD command successful.
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for P40DEV.J51.A130001.O999999.YYQ20063.NORMsw.
netout: write returned 0?
226 Transfer complete.
221 Goodbye.

Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Sandra

'site' is not an 'ftp' command.

Hello Shell life,

I'm sorry for this mistake.

I'm a mainframe (adabas natural) expert and a Unix dummie. We will migrate from mainframe to unix and someone else wrote this script, but I encounter this error now, so that's why I'm here. Maybe the order is wrong, or it is wrong that it is put to capitals....

Is there somebody who can tell me something?

Thanks.

Sandra

Sandra,
Try to run the ftp without the 'site' commands and see if it does
what you want.

The purpose of 'ftp' is just to transfer files amongst machines.

Hi,

the ftp does work without the site commands. But we are ftp-ing to a mainframe and we need a fixed recordlenght of 500.

Thanks.

Sandra

Sandra,
Run this script in the unix box where the file you want to transfer resides.
Make sure there is no '|' anywhere in the file.
If there is, then choose another character that for sure is not present in the file.

Code:

typeset -i mCnt=0
typeset -L500 mOutLine
mInpFile='your_input_file'
while [ ${mCnt} -lt 500 ]
do
 m500Chars=${m500Chars}'|'
 mCnt=${mCnt}+1
done
while read mLine
do
  mOut2=${mLine}${m500Chars}
  echo ${mOutLine} >> $$Temp
done < ${mInpFile}
sed 's/|/ /g' $$Temp > ${mInpFile}
rm -f $$Temp

What OS are you using? Most ftp clients do indeed have a site command. You must have an old version of unix.