Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 17:30:59 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP and cron Message-ID: <20021115173059.GA48777@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20021115103931.A82781@starfire.mn.org> References: <20021115103931.A82781@starfire.mn.org>
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On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:39:31AM -0600, John wrote:
> 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.
When you're running from cron(8) you get a very limited environment.
You won't get a tty assigned to you, and the $TERM environment
variable won't be set. That makes it difficult for ftp(1) to do any
of the screen control things you may be expecting.
Stuff like $FTP_PASSIVE_MODE, which is often set out of
/etc/login.conf, won't be configured either. Actually, on reflection
the symptoms you describe sound like ftp(1) active mode breakage to me
--- you tend to get that if you're running a firewall on the client
end of the ftp connection. Try using pftp(1) or equivalently,
supplying the '-p' flag on the ftp command line.
Cheers,
Matthew
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