topic Re: FTP results send to root's email in Operating System - HP-UX

FTP results send to root's email

MAD_2 — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:36:28 GMT

I have a script that FTPs some files archive files to another server. The problem I have is that it sends a very long list of these files and the entire FTP process gets recorded in root's email. I do not want it to go there, can anyone tell me what I can add to avoid this from happening (like how to send it to /dev/null?):

FTP portion of the script.
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#FTP the compressed archives
echo "`date` Start FTP of Oracle archive files to ${HOST1} " >> ${LOGFILE}
ftp -n ${HOST1} <<-EOF
user ${USER} ${PASS}
cd ${RMTARCHDIR}
binary
verbose
mput arch*gz
bye
EOF

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Thanks for any help!

Re: FTP results send to root's email

Mic V. — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:38:28 GMT

Maybe:

ftp -n ${HOST} <<-EOF >/dev/null 2>&1

Mic

Re: FTP results send to root's email

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:42:04 GMT

Hi,

You can take out "verbose" from your ftp commands.

You can also redirect the output messages to /dev/null as below. Here both stdout and stderr go to /dev/null. But you can adjust it to however you want.

ftp -n ${HOST1} << EOF > /dev/null 2>&1
..
..
EOF

To redirect standard out messages to a log file but errors to /dev/null

ftp -n ${HOST1} << EOF >> $LOGFILE 2>/dev/null

The other way

ftp -n ${HOST1} << EOF > /dev/null 2>$LOGFILE

-Sri

Should work

-Sri

Re: FTP results send to root's email

MAD_2 — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:00:06 GMT

Great, thank you both!