Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:39:31 -0600 From: John <john@starfire.mn.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FTP and cron Message-ID: <20021115103931.A82781@starfire.mn.org>
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Hi. I'm still running FreeBSD 4.3, but I suspect the problem isn't specific to that one operating system. I'm having fits running ftp from cron jobs. Shell or "expect" scripts that execute perfectly from the terminal fail in a seeminly non- deterministic variety of ways when run from cron. No, it's not something simple like cron not running expect, or ftp being in "non-interactive mode". The prework all runs correctly, I even set the hash byte count and get the feedback from that... when the put command starts, though, things get different! I get different progress messages, no hash marks, and apparently, no data transferred. The file NAME appears on the remote side, but is 0 length regardless of how long I wait. When I run the scripts from the terminal, it works fine. Can anyone lend any insight or point me in the right direction? Thanks! -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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