Script Question

[Chrisl_2]

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

[Kofi ARTHIABAH · Accepted solution]

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

[James R. Ferguson]

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...

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

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

[Chrisl_2]

.netrc. You guys nailed it.

Thx!

[Chrisl_2]

see thread.