Re: [cobalt-users] Automating ftp

["Nico Meijer" <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Erik,

> Since a few weeks we have a cobalt raq 4 server and i know it's possible
to
> automate some tasks, but is it possible to create a script that downloads
a
> few files from an ftp server to the raq and then upload these files to
> another server? and if it's possible how do i do this?

That should very well be possible, but there's so many ways of transferring
files over a network. You could use simple ftp (tricky, haven't automated
that before), but scp or rsync thru ssh would be much better. scp/ssh allows
authentication without supplying passwords, making automation easy.

What are you options? Can you describe what setup "you" and "they" have?
Does it *have* to be ftp? Are the files always named the same?

Those kinds of questions... Nico