On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 10:14:37PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > Is there any way to SSH or telnet into an account, start a command line > program such as an ftp session, get the download going, then log out and > leave the process happeneing. I would like to be able to start downloading > then close down the workstation from which I SSHed, and come back the next > day to find the task complete.
You can batch an ftp session. You can run this batched session to background or with a scheduler: at now > ftp <<EOF > open host > user myid password mypass > cd /somepath > get afile > put anotherfile > bye > EOF ^D ...assuming you know 'zactly what you want to do. Syntax not guaranteed. You can specify a .netrc file to automatically log in/out of specified hosts, avoiding need to put your userid/password into the script or here document. You might also look at scp and rsync if they're supported at both ends of your connection(s). -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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