topic Re: FTP problem in Operating System - HP-UX

FTP problem

Fuad_1 — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 06:53:44 GMT

Hi,

I have successfuly write script file which runs by cron to transfer files through VPN. But, the other end always says that there are some files not been transfered. Could you please help me in this.

Re: FTP problem

Simone Benzi_1 — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:24:38 GMT

Hi,

Could you send us your script and the error message?

Thanks,

Simone

Re: FTP problem

Niraj Kumar Verma — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:35:00 GMT

can you please post your script ??

Re: FTP problem

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:41:49 GMT

Pretty wide field here.

1) Are you sure the VPN is up at the time of transfer. These connections can be configured with time restristions.

2) If the files exceed 2 GB, you need to insure that the target filesystem accepts largefiles. In HP-UX 11.00 that requires mount instructions in /etc/fstab and the filesystem is created newfs -F vxfs -o largefiles or fsadm is used to convert the filesystem.

As always, a copy of the script and error code would make this much easier to work on.

SEP
wish I could sleep.

Re: FTP problem

Fuad_1 — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:48:10 GMT

This following is the script:

cd /appl/TAUT
ls CD* > files.txt
while read LINE
do
sleep 35
ftp -n hostname << EOF
user name password
type ascii
prompt
hash
put $LINE
bye
EOF
mv $LINE /home/net/backup_out
done < files.txt

Re: FTP problem

hein coulier — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:58:18 GMT

The script looks good to me. Is the other system a Z/OS ? I remember we had some strange fenomena in the past that were resolved by ptf on the mf.

Just a hint, u can also make the folowwing script :

ftp -n hostname < user name password
cd /appl/TAUT
type ascii
prompt
hash
mput CD*
bye
EOF

BTW, perhaps your problem is the space between
<< EOF. Ift should be concatenated.

Re: FTP problem

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:33:53 GMT

Your fundamental problem is that you are doing absolutely no error checking. By far, the easist method, is to use a Perl script using the Net::FTP module. The attached script will examine the status and automatically attempt a re-transmit on any file that fails.

Invoke it like this:
ftpput.pl file1 file2 file2

It will then send the files indicated. You should modify the script to suit your needs (e.g. specify a host and directory) but this should get you started. It understands .netrc conventions so that passwords do not have to be embedded.