topic Re: Script Question in Operating System - HP-UX

Script Question

Chrisl_2 — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:20:16 GMT

HPUX 11.23 PA-RISC RP3410
Hi all. I moved a production system today from an old L2000 to a new RP3410. The new RP3410 took the old ip address and user accounts/passwords. Everything is fine...except 1 little script. It uses a here document to ftp a file from this system to another...here's the snippet

ftp host <put 'blah blah'
ENDFTP

and here is the error that show up in cron

Error - incorrect permissions on /dev/tty.
Name (host:root): password missing from PASS command
Login failed.
Not logged in.

No passwords have changed. Any ideas?

TIA

Re: Script Question

Kofi ARTHIABAH — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:24:53 GMT

Is it possible that on the old machine, you had set up a .netrc file. This would allow the above to work without the requirement for password.

Create a file on the machine that is going to run the script called .netrc in the home directory of the user, and then include the hostname and the password. (do man netrc for more info)

echo "machine machine_name login login_name password the_password" >> $HOME/.netrc

should do the trick.

Good luck

Re: Script Question

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:27:32 GMT

Hi Chris:

So where is the user/password? Are you using a 'netrc' file? Did you port that file to your new machine?

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Script Question

Victor Fridyev — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:12:59 GMT

Hi,

Please compare the following: ~/.netrc and /etc/shells on the old and new servers.
HTH

Re: Script Question

Chrisl_2 — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:08:39 GMT

.netrc. You guys nailed it.

Thx!

Re: Script Question

Chrisl_2 — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:09:58 GMT

see thread.