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Title: FTP Automatically
Post by: BYte on April 05, 2002, 05:54:42 PM

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!

Title: Re: FTP Automatically
Post by: Charles on April 06, 2002, 01:08:06 AM

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

Title: Re: FTP Automatically
Post by: Tom Carroll on April 11, 2002, 09:47:18 AM

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

Title: Re: FTP Automatically
Post by: BYte on April 12, 2002, 01:42:34 PM

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

Title: Re: FTP Automatically
Post by: Tom Carroll on April 12, 2002, 07:36:46 PM

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