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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!haven.umd.edu!umd5.umd.edu!elea.umd.edu!mark From: mark@elea.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Challenge Date: 9 Jul 1993 15:33:05 GMT Organization: University of Maryland Lines: 25 Message-ID: <21k33h$9r5@umd5.umd.edu> References: <GSPIEGEL.127.742156302@bsa3.kent.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: elea.umd.edu Keywords: cron In article <GSPIEGEL.127.742156302@bsa3.kent.edu> GSPIEGEL@bsa3.kent.edu (Greg Spiegelberg) writes: >Here's my problem >3) I'd then like the cron file to automatically ftp to our ftp server > (which happens to get backed up regularly). You need to use 'ftp -n' to make it _not_ prompt for the user name and password. For example: ftp -n << ARFARF open other_computers_name user some_user_name some_password put file_you_want_to_send quit ARFARF The weakness here is that you must specify a user name and password in the script file. I would recommend that your ftp server have a username/password pair that is used exclusively for making the backups, and which is not allowed to log in interactively. I would not recommend using anonymous ftp because you don't know if some anonymous user is going to trash your backup files. Mark S.