ftp

[Admin.SIF]

Hi,
please excuse my english.
We are using an ftp-script to put files from hpux box to windows NT.
Does someone have an idea how to terminate the session (bye/quit) after inactivity time set with idle, perhaps using status ??
Thanks,

Nora

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

#!/usr/bin/sh
ftp -n << EOF
verbose
open thehost
user uuu ppp
get /tmp/stuff
close
EOF

I think close

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

You can add a timeout option (-t ) to the 'ftpd' daemon as started by 'inetd'. The default, is 15-minutes:

For example, to chnge the timeout to 5-minutes change the 'ftp' entry to look something like this in /etc/inetd/conf:

# ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -l -t 5

To enable the change, do this:

# /usr/sbin/inetd -c

...JRF...

[Admin.SIF]

Hi Vicenzo,
my question is : how to terminate the script if there is a problem before the close or bye or quit.
We receive : exiting on signal 14 but the session is still here without any connection.

Precison : the ftp-script is enclosed in another script which execute a lot of things, so if the ftp session is not terminated, the script can not continue.

Thanks,
Nora

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

See in my script ftp session is terminated with close,otherwise bye or quit.

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

Sorry,fix the timeout see the reply of James.

[Admin.SIF]

Please, see the precision in my second message.
Nora

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

The following will automatically quit

------------------cut here-------------------
# Send the files to the new server
ftp -n 172.20.20.17 <user ftpuser sesamme
prompt
binary
mput *.BI
put REFRESH.FLG
quit
End_of_Ftp
------------------cut here-------------------


Paula

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi
I have just re-read your question.

Instead of putting fixes into scripts, investigate the reason for the "exiting on signal 14". Ntework problems ? server / network timeouts?


Paula

[Mark Fenton]

Nora,

Should we assume that your script that calls the ftp has to wait for the ftp session to finish before proceding, perhaps logging the success/failure of the session? If so, then I would think that James' solution should fix, as the session should time out waiting for activity.

If the script doesn't need to wait for the ftp session, then couldn't that portion be backgrounded while the rest continues? You probably already thought of that, though...