Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:11:15 -0800 (PST) From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.truenorth.org> To: email@john.net (John Clark) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatic File Send (FTP) Message-ID: <199702171711.JAA25165@superior.truenorth.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970217105051.00a6f100@netview.net> from John Clark at "Feb 17, 97 10:50:06 am"
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>Hello, > >I am trying to dispatch a file automatically to another server at a given >time. The Cron scheduling is obvious, but what is not obvious is a >practical way of invoking an FTP agent to do the transfer. What I am >thinking of is the reverse of NCFTP's colon mode of file fetching (ie. >ncftp site.name:file.name). The script will also have to send a user name >and pwd. Accomplishing this is not at all obvious. Does anyone have >suggestions? > >Thanks in advance. > > >John Clark >[email@john.net] > Read the FTP man page. Look at the section which talks about the .netrc file. In the past I have used a perl script to generate, on the fly, a .netrc file then invoke ftp. Works pretty well Josef -- Josef Grosch | Laugh while you can, monkey boy ! | FreeBSD 2.1.6 jgrosch@sirius.com | - John Warfin - | UNIX for the masses
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