First, THANKS!!! for all the quick responses, I got it to work just fine.
Specifically, deep felt gratitude is extended to:
Andrew Sit
Buddy Lumpkin
Sanjaya Srivastava
Frank Velaquez
Frank Smith
Tim Fritz
James Zhao
Amit Mohan
Samir Sethi
plus a "Gee, Thanks for nothing" to the two un-named individuals who took the time out of their busy day to tell me to look at the man page for "netrc" (like I hadn't thought of that and was still stumped...)
Anyway, the original problem was:
Does anyone have the time to show me how to set things up so that
I can have root's (or anyone else's) crontab extract a couple of
files from another server back onto the one initiating the transfer?
For example, how would I set it up to extract copies of the files
named "/temp/file1" and "/temp/file2" from the remote server named
"system1" using a user ID of "oracle" with a password on the both
systems of "ora-pass"? The UID is the same on both systems for the
user "oracle".
THE SOLUTION: (at least the one I used)
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LINE IN ".netrc" (which must be mode 600 in initiating users $HOME:
machine system1 login root password root-pas
THE ACTUAL SCRIPT RUN FROM CRON:
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#!/bin/sh
ftp system1 << !EOF
binary
cd /remote/system/source/directory1
cd /local/system/target/directory1
get file1a
get file1b
cd /remote/system/source/directory2
cd /local/system/target/directory2
get file2
cd /remote/system/source/directory3
cd /local/system/target/directory3
get file3
bye
!EOF
#END OF THE SCRIPT
NOTE --- a couple of responses mentioned that the blank line after the:
bye
and before the:
!EOF
was **REQUIRED**. Since it was stated more than once I saw no need to verify that. I used the blank line and it worked fine.
Have a Great Day, and, again, THANKS for all the QUICK assistance provided!!
Vern Walls
Perot Systems
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