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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!Germany.EU.net!news From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Challenge Date: 8 Jul 1993 20:51:50 +0200 Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 33 Distribution: world Message-ID: <21hqc6$l1@Germany.EU.net> References: <GSPIEGEL.127.742156302@bsa3.kent.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net Keywords: cron In article <GSPIEGEL.127.742156302@bsa3.kent.edu>, GSPIEGEL@bsa3.kent.edu (Greg Spiegelberg) writes: |> 3) I'd then like the cron file to automatically ftp to our ftp server |> (which happens to get backed up regularly). |> |> I'm just not sure how I can get a script file to do the ftp bit. assume name client and server. Use tftp instead. Okay, tftp is probably a security hole, but then there's security by obscurity, right ? Create a directory on client and make it accessible to tftp read-only. Put your dump in there. Use tftp on server to retrieve backup file from client and put it on server. If you want to play safe with the backups, add a checksum file and check the checksums. Generate OK message on server. The program tftp reads from stdin instead of from tty, and it does indeed work with sh scripts like tftp << EOF Hope that helps Bernard -- ===== ____ ===== EUnet Deutschland GmbH ===== / / / ___ ___ _/_ ===== Emil-Figge-Str. 80 ===== /---- / / / / /___/ / ===== D-44227 Dortmund ===== /____ /___/ / / /___ / ===== Germany ======= ======= Vox +49 231 972 00 ======= Connecting Europe since 1982 ======= Fax +49 231 972 1111