From owner-freebsd-questions  Sun May 20 23:24:49 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from exchange.twowaytv.co.uk (exchange.twowaytv.co.uk [194.6.2.173])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B32B937B424
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sun, 20 May 2001 23:24:45 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from ADyas@twowaytv.com)
Received: by exchange.twowaytv.co.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)
	id <K0T4CDV9>; Mon, 21 May 2001 07:21:37 +0100
Message-ID: <911D8F660DF6D411B61F00500462BA017755F8@exchange.twowaytv.co.uk>
From: Alex Dyas <ADyas@twowaytv.com>
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: FTP shell script
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 07:21:36 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Doug,

I think this may solve you problem:

<ftpscript>
#!/bin/sh
ftp 10.10.10.10 2>&1 <<!
bin
passive
cd /tmp
put alex.txt
!
</ftpscript>

Basically, between the two '!' characters you can put anything you would
normally type in an interactive FTP session.

This requires a .netrc on the local machine with the appropriate login privs
for the remote machine.

alex..

> Hi,
> 
> I need to have a scrip zip up a directory periodically, and 
> ftp it to a
> microsoft version ftp server.  The zip part was a snap.  But 
> I can't seem to
> get anywhere with the ftp part.
> 
> 1st, here is the last script I tried:
> 
> #! /bin/csh
> 
> zip -r /home/wwwroot/mrtg-backup.zip 
> /home/wwwroot/vhosts/mrtg.apc.net/*
> ftp ftp://myusername:mypassword@ftp.apc.net
> put mrtg-backup.zip
> by
> 
> OK, now clearly, this is wrong as 1) the following line are 
> never passed to
> the ftp server, but what has really been frosting me is 2) a 
> problem with
> passive transfers.
> 
> The ftp server I'm ftping to doesn't allow passive transfers 
> (goes REAL
> SLOW--really useless when trying to do passive), but when I 
> execute that
> script, it automatically enables passive transfers for the 
> session.  I have
> searched and searched for a .netrc, but found none to turn that off.
> 
> I know that at the command line, I can type passive, then it 
> will disable
> passive mode, but only for that session, and not in my script.  Since
> passive is default, I tried passing the -p in the initial ftp 
> line, but that
> only requested it!
> 
> Anyone got any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Doug.

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message