netrc Password Prompt Problem

[Mark Duffy]

Hi all,

I'm trying to ftp a file and wanting to use netrc to do this. My script is failing because it is looking for manual prompt at the login stage of ftp and I can't seem to find a way to this shut this prompt off. Any ideas anyone? Script is as follows:

#!/bin/ksh
cd /tmp

echo "machine y.y.y.y login xxxx password xxxx macdef init" > netrc
echo "cd /techsup/demon/sysinfo" >> netrc
echo "prompt off" >> netrc
echo "put demoninfo*" >> netrc
echo "quit" >> netrc
echo >> netrc

mv netrc /.netrc
chmod 600 /.netrc
ftp 195.99.161.11
rm /.netrc

When I run thus I get the
NAME (hostname:user):
ftp prompt which is looking for a manual entry??

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

This automatic unattended ftp routine should do what you require.

ftp -n user
prompt
put
quit
End_of_Ftp


HTH

Paula

[John Palmer · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Instead of using .netrc, why don't you try the following:-

ftp -n << EOD
user
cd ...

quit
EOD

This definitely works ok.

Regards,
John

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

I suspect that this might be a name resolution issue. the name specified in machine (must resolve) and the IP address must reverse resolv to the same name. If you are using IP addresses only, maintain all references to host as IP addresses. If you are using names, make sure that the names resolve to the same either way ie.:

host is not the same as host.domain.com