[Sussex] Automated FTP

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:08:53 +0100
"Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl at jorgensen.com> enlightened us with:
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> !? Ftp or email?  Must be a strange hosting company if they only want
> to accept email attachments!?  Authentification must be a real PITA
> for them...

It's for a system I'm designing, I want to able to email a file from
anywhere (pictures etc.) and have it uploaded.
 
> I assume that we're talking plain ftp upload here...

yup
 
> > is it possible to do this using ftp and a shell script with cron?
> > 
> > I would need to upload the file to _remote_/htdocs/someDir/ from
> > _local_/home/$user
> 
> For my own website, I prepare the files locally and then use sitecopy
> ( http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/ ) to push any changes to the web
> server.
> 
> Of course, a *really cool* solution would be to use the virtual ftp
> file system module, combined with use cp(1) or rsync(1) but I haven't
> tried that yet...

Cheers, I'll try it.

> If that won't cut it then read on...
> 
> I don't know which Linux distro you're using, but in Debian we have a
> couple of packages that should help:

I'll see if Gentoo has the same in portage.

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> In the past I've used lftp(1) for that - it can take commands on the
> command line.

I'll look into this too.

> > This email has been independently scanned for viruses and any virus
> > detected has been removed using McAfee anti-virus software
> 
> whatever. Why advertise for them?

I wish I could remove it, it's added by the mail relay here at uni.  The
ironic thing is that I keep getting viruses in my IMAP student account. 
Maybe they're only checking outgoing emails... :p

Matt

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