topic Re: errors in Operating System - HP-UX

errors

harikrishna — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:02:45 GMT

hi,
can anyone plz let me know how to handle the error for the following command.

ftp -n <

Re: errors

Sanjay Kumar Suri — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:32:14 GMT

You can do the following. Put the following in a script file say a.sh.

ftp -n << EOF
open xxxxxxxxxxx
user name passwd
cd /xxx/yyyy
ascii
get filename
quit
EOF

And execute with

#sh a.sh > out

sks

Re: errors

harikrishna — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:51:06 GMT

hi sanjay,
what ever you sent is fine and working .Thanks for giving the solution.but i want to know how to catch in side the script b'cause i am using that command 4 times in my script,based on erros i have to do the remainig connection.as per above model it leads to write many scripts.plz let me know any method to handle erros inside the script itself.

THANKS A LOT FOR GIVING THE SOLUTION

HARI

Re: errors

Sanjay Kumar Suri — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:39:26 GMT

Hello Hari

If you want you can check with if as given below:

if test -f out
then
echo "error"
else
echo "no error"
fi

sks

Re: errors

harikrishna — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:59:00 GMT

hi sanjay,
thanks for your help.i got the answer.it is
ftp -n << ! > logfile
--
---
--
bye
!
then errors are in log file.

THANKS

HARI

Re: errors

Hoefnix — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 02:13:53 GMT

If you do an ftp -n -v you wil get some more error information.

Regards,

Peter

Re: errors

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:21:52 GMT

Hi Hari,

you still can take no action within the ftp script. I don't think, that's possible.

Michael