Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 08:26:55 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: John Clark <email@john.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Automatic File Send (FTP) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970217082629.23228B-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970217105051.00a6f100@netview.net>
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On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, John Clark wrote: > 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? I've never used Expect, but I hear it's good for this sort of thing. Perl is also an option. > Thanks in advance. > > > John Clark > [email@john.net] > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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