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by **joeh** » Tue, 13 Jul 1999 04:00:00

My Goal: collect info from all servers via automated ftp shell programs
run from cron
Does Solaris have something built-in which would facilitate this? Linux
has 'ncftp', an
interface to ftp. Besides having to put 'username login passwd' in a
..netrc file?

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by **Andre** » Tue, 13 Jul 1999 04:00:00

Quote:> Linux has 'ncftp', an interface to ftp.

NcFTP is not an interface to ftp. It's an ftp client. There's nothing
at all stopping you from compiling NcFTP on Solaris.

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by **Timothy J. L** » Tue, 13 Jul 1999 04:00:00

|My Goal: collect info from all servers via automated ftp shell programs
|run from cron
|Does Solaris have something built-in which would facilitate this? Linux
|has 'ncftp', an
|interface to ftp. Besides having to put 'username login passwd' in a
|..netrc file?

ncftp is a completely different ftp program.

For scripted ftp, you may want to take a look at GNU wget.

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by **Peter Sundstro** » Wed, 14 Jul 1999 04:00:00

Why not just mail the info back to your central host?

>My Goal: collect info from all servers via automated ftp shell programs
>run from cron
>Does Solaris have something built-in which would facilitate this? Linux
>has 'ncftp', an
>interface to ftp. Besides having to put 'username login passwd' in a
>..netrc file?

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>access to a news server; thanks!
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by **Davin Mil** » Wed, 14 Jul 1999 04:00:00

?My Goal: collect info from all servers via automated ftp shell programs
?run from cron
?Does Solaris have something built-in which would facilitate this? Linux
?has 'ncftp', an
?interface to ftp. Besides having to put 'username login passwd' in a
?..netrc file?

You can grab the ncftp sources, and compile them yourself.
(Or maybe someone already has ncftp available on www.sunfreeware.com)

However, my recommendation is use GNU's wget instead.

ncftp makes a nice interactive ftp program; but wget does a better job
of non-interactive transfers (and it can do http as well).

Davin.
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by **Martin Hepwort** » Wed, 14 Jul 1999 04:00:00

> My Goal: collect info from all servers via automated ftp shell programs
> run from cron
> Does Solaris have something built-in which would facilitate this? Linux
> has 'ncftp', an
> interface to ftp. Besides having to put 'username login passwd' in a
> ..netrc file?

> --

> access to a news server; thanks!
> Disclaimer: opinions expressed my own and not representative of my employers

HI
yes you can get ncftp for solaris - see http://www.sunfreeware.com

Also have a look at 'mirror' - http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/mirror -
as it does this sort of thing already.

Martin

by **William Roede** » Wed, 14 Jul 1999 04:00:00

> ?My Goal: collect info from all servers via automated ftp shell programs
> ?run from cron
> ?Does Solaris have something built-in which would facilitate this? Linux
> ?has 'ncftp', an
> ?interface to ftp. Besides having to put 'username login passwd' in a
> ?..netrc file?

<snip>
You can create script.
ftp -nvi << EOF
open $site
user $user $password
cd $location
binary
has
get $fn
EOF
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by **joeh** » Thu, 15 Jul 1999 04:00:00

Mailing is definitely better, but in my case that would mean fixing another
problem, namely that two of the
hosts are SCO Open Server running this thing called 'mmdf'; i ran the
'mkdev mmdf' routine to configure routing mail via smtp to a central host
and it's not working. So rather than spend hours trying to figure out
'mmdf'
i decided to go for the ftp method; thanks

> Why not just mail the info back to your central host?

> >My Goal: collect info from all servers via automated ftp shell programs
> >run from cron
> >Does Solaris have something built-in which would facilitate this? Linux
> >has 'ncftp', an
> >interface to ftp. Besides having to put 'username login passwd' in a
> >..netrc file?

> >--

> have
> >access to a news server; thanks!
> >Disclaimer: opinions expressed my own and not representative of my
> employers

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