You could start by running the PHP script via cron. If the timeout you
got was from the web server's configuration then it might not timeout
when run from cron.
To run a PHP script from cron you first give the path to php then the
path to the script, so depending on your server setup, it would look
*something* like this
/usr/local/bin/php /full_path_to_ftp_script/the_script.php
If it still times out you could try wrapping the call to the php script
in a shell script. The shell script would need to generate or read a
list of the files to be ftp'd and pass them to the php script. The php
script would need to read the input, handle just one file and then exit.
Hope the makes sense,
Sheila
steve miller wrote:
yes, I can cron!
On Mar 7, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Sheila Fenelon wrote:
steve miller wrote:
Hi all.
Probably a simple question for *nix people, but not for a newbie :)
I want to ftp the contents of a large directory from one server to
another (probably 300 files @ 20MB each).
I have the login and paths for both the sending server and the
receiving, but I don't have telnet access into them.
I have written php scripts to ftp them, but the scripts timeout after
about 10 files.
I've tried simply using an ftp client with 2 windows open, but that
is way slow.
Is there a way to issue an exec ftp command to do this that won't
timeout the php script?
Maybe run some shell program or something?
Any help appreciated!
steve
Without shell access your options are limited. Can you run cron
scripts on machine with the files?
--
Sheila
http://www.shefen.com/
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