ftp in cron (was Re: cron)
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Feb 21 00:09:21 UTC 2007
Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 20Feb2007 23:36, eng.waleed <walleed222 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> | how I can make cron to copy my files to ftp ?
>
> But using a .netrc file. See "man ftp" for details.
Even better, try to use a sensible non-interactive protocol like scp or
rsync-over-ssh instead of ftp if possible. If you must use ftp, there
are tools for command line access like ncftp, curl, or perl modules that
make it easy to script file transfers.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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