Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 12:52:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatic File Send (FTP) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970217125058.2373D-100000@luke.cpl.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970217082629.23228B-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
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> > 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? > > I've never used Expect, but I hear it's good for this sort of thing. > Perl is also an option. I once had a need to do this as well, and NcFTP2 worked great. All you gotta do is have it log in manually, and have a macro file to tell it what to do when its logged in. Then you just call it from CRON when you need it to transfer. This would be a much simplier and easier way of doing it than writing a perl or expect script. :)
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