Exactly how best to do it depends on how you now download the files by hand. Assuming you do it via ftp, the remote server must be offering ftp service (either directly or, more likely, through inetd). If this be so, here are a few general ideas: 1. Write a script that starts the ppp connection and interface, uses expect to run your ftp client to do the downloads, then closes the ppp interface. 2. Do the same as (1), except do it in perl, and use the perl module (I think Net::, but check this) that supports ftp directly. 3. Same as (2), except write your own ftp piece using perl's socket capabilities instead of the perl module. 4. Same as (3), except do it in C, if you know C but not perl. In any of the above cases, you'd run the script or program as a cron job. If you use a method other than ftp now, the details change, but the same options apply -- you must be using *some* sort of socket connection to get to the remote computer. At 10:32 AM 6/27/99 -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote [in part]: >... I need some kind of automated >system that will allow my PC to dial up my ISP, and then download certain >files from my domain server. I already have the auto dial-in working. > >My question is, what do I have to do so my PC will access these remote >files and download them. BTW, I don't know if the server is running any >kind of remote file server program. Both computers are running Red Hat. ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, CA 94303-3603 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------
