topic Re: ftp login in Operating System - HP-UX

ftp login

Ralf Buchhold — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 03:31:41 GMT

Hello
i must ftp an file from a sun machine.
Is it possible for am automatic ftp (get and put) ? I have the username and password for the ftp sun user ?
Thanks
Ralf

Re: ftp login

Alex Lavrov. — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 03:43:08 GMT

Yes. You should use .netrc file. It's not secure solution, but it does what you want.

http://www.users.qwest.net/~eballen1/scripting.ftp.html

Alex.

Re: ftp login

Balasubramanian S — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 04:18:45 GMT

Hello Ralf, I believe you can do that. You need to add the following in .netrc file,
machine host_1 login usr_name password passwd.

< Bala S

Re: ftp login

Muthukumar_5 — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 04:21:03 GMT

You can also use scripting to do it effectively as,

ftp -n -i <<-EOF
user
cd location
lcd local-location
get file
put file
bye
EOF

Put this file into a script and automate with cron schedular also.

hth.

Re: ftp login

Bejoy C Alias — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 04:24:21 GMT

U can do this way also.
create a file like this

user username passwd

quit

Then execute ftp as 'ftp -in host < filename'

Re: ftp login

generic_1 — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 18:57:52 GMT

Consider seting up scp with keys. This would be secure and easy.

Re: ftp login

Thomas Moersch — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:41:00 GMT

Yes, Ralf, scp is the way to go. It is way easier to script, plus you have the option of checking the return code "$?" after each scp. This will allow you to make your script a lot smarter.

scp local.filename userid@remotehost:/path/and/filename

Thomas