Topic: FTP Automatically

[BYte]

Hi

Does Anyone know how to open up ftp access to public automatically via a cron job, instead of having to open it up manually from the web browser.


Is this possible?

Thanks for any help!

[Charles]

What I use is wget -b ftp://url.to.file

This will fork a download session in the background...

I hope you can use this

Greetz,

Charles

[Tom Carroll]

Are you using both private and public ftp access, or just public ftp access at various times?

[BYte]

Just public ftp access at various times is this possible then??

[Tom Carroll]

You bet.  This would be farely simple by configuring proftpd the way you want it for your public access and then create a cron job to load the proftpd daemon and another to unload it at the scheduled times.

I don't know what the commands are to bring that service up or to take it down, but you can probably find it here in the forums by searching on proftpd.

Good luck!

Tom Carroll