On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 04:00:33 K.Deepak wrote:
>Can anyone suggest me some good tool to do a automatic
>file upload in linux.
Add the server to your ~/.netrc like this:
machine FTPSERVER login MYUSERNAME password MYPASSWORD
default login anonymous password [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The second line creates an easy way for yoy to login to anonymous FTP
servers. The file should be readable only by you because it contains
passwords (chmod 600 ~/.netrc).
Then do an FTP session and keep track of the commands you use. Create a
script file with those commands:
lcd somelocaldir
cd someremotedir
binary
put thisfile
put thatfile
put theotherfile
quit
Then you should be able to run an automated session like this:
ftp FTPSERVER < ftpscript > ftplog
The good thing about this method is that if you already know how to use
command line FTP then you don't have to learn anything new. The bad part is
that command line FTP does not handle errors very well. So if the connection
times out or fails, there is no easy way to tell the script to retry or
report the failure. The only thing you can do is check the ftplog to see
what happened during the session.
If you need better error handling, try the "wget" utility. I believe it
ships with Red Hat.
Tony
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