[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Now, I need to find a way to distribute a users file
> between them. I have one running on linux and the other
> running on NT. I was going to put something together
> to run on linux's crontab and simply FTP the file every
> day.
I believe ncftp has a batch mode, or you could use something like
smbclient (or smbfs and cp the files - I guess you want them to be
separate for when the NT box dies :-) In fact you should just be able
to set up something with the standard ftp with a .netrc file (man ftp
for info) and use this:
echo "get users
quit
" | ftp server
You might want to terminate the user file with a test entry that you can
grep for to make sure the transfer succeeded before replacing a working
one. (grep -q testentry && cp newuserfile users)
Between two UNIX boxes, scp (part of ssh) would usually be an excellent
choice - it has a simple command-line interface and uses a secure
channel for the transfer. (It will also do on-the-fly compression if you
ask it to).
You might even be able to use an NT command-line version of scp to pull
the files from ssh running on the Linux box. I don't know if the
standard version will compile under Cygwin but maybe worth a try or
there is a commercial version available.
Hope this helps
Stuart
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Stuart Henderson
Network Engineer, Eclipse Networking Ltd.
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