I have been challenged with a task at work and we hope to use Linux for
this.
This will be the first Linux machine in the building. Let me try to
describe what I want
to do and what I have done allready.
I am a TV engineer. Our TV station's weather department has 3 SGI
machines and a Solaris machine.
2 of the SGI's and the Solaris are on a network together. Right now,
they save wx maps to floppies and
ftp them to our internet site. This is very tedious and repetitive.
Here's where Linux comes into play.
First our IT knows nothing about Linux ( or Unix ) for that matter, so
hence the reason I got the job.
What I want to do is have the Linux box ( now refered to as Beavis )
reside on the SGI network and get
these files ( not actually GET - more later ) and FTP them to the web
server using cron.hourly.
Beavis is a AMD K-6/II with 64 megs of ram and a 4 gig HD running
Mandrake 6.0 with a NIC installed
( Intel Ethernet Express ) working and surfing thru the MS proxy
server. It resides at an address
of 192.x.x.x. All is well. The SGI stuff resides with an adress of
147.x.x.x.
I need to add a SECOND IDENTICAL NIC ( Same Intel Ethernet Express ) to
this and make it another
147.x.x.x address. This is where I'm running into problems. I cannot
seem to find a HOWTO about
2 network cards residing in a machine. These are ISA cards BTW, so I
cannot set IRQ like PCI's.
AND these cards have NO physical jumpers to set anything, the only
difference is they seem to have a
PAL chip on each programmed for a different address.
The SGI machines have a place to set a mount point on any drive on the
network. The wx people will simply
save thier maps they want to uload to /home/beavis/maps or something
along that line.
Then using SOME FTP program, do this hourly, automatically.
I think I can handle most of this but the 2 NIC's is the HURDLE..
Also whats the BEST FTP to use in a situation like this.
What I want to do is
ftp a whole directory ( about 15 maps )
delete it.
The updated maps from the SGI have the SAME filenames over and over so
once they are FTP'ed they
need to be deleted from Beavis.
I hope some of you have some insight on this, cause the boss ( who wants
to try Linux ) has
been yakking this up.. I think it would be awsome to do this and go back
and say,
Beavis has been running for 250 days, 13 hours, 26 minutes etc. without
a reboot.
Might change some attitudes around there..
Alan
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