Cron Jobs in a weekly schedule

[moorthygs]

Dear All,

Every week i have to download some files from ftp server and copied into offshore Server(Suse Linux) file system. For this task i have to spend more than 4 hours in a week.

So I am planning to put a cron job for downloading files from ftp and put/replace directly into our offshore server.

I am new in cron jobs.

Please help me to do that.

Thanks in advance,

Moorthy.GS

[vsemaska]

First you should read up on crontab:
man crontab
man 5 crontab
man 1 crontab

Now let's say you have a script /home/user/ftp.sh and you want to run it every Monday evening at 10 PM. The crontab entry would look like:

00 22 * * 1 /home/user/ftp.sh > /home/user/ftp.log 2>&1

This will run script ftp.sh and put all output from stdout & stderr in ftp.log.

Vic

[moorthygs]

Hey Vic,

Thanks for your reply...

Kindly give me sample script for connecting ftp and get the files from that.

Also how to write a cron job for that operation.


Thanks,

Moorthy.GS

[vsemaska]

The script /home/user/ftp.sh could look something like this:

#!/bin/bash -vx

ftp -in host-name<<END_SCRIPT
quote USER username
quote PASS password
bin
mget filename
bye
END_SCRIPT

Replace 'host-name', 'username', 'password', & 'filename' with the appropriate values.

Then do '# crontab -e' and add that crontab entry.

Vic