Re: FTP and cron

2002-11-15 Thread John
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:30:59PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:39:31AM -0600, John wrote: > > > No, it's not something simple like cron not running expect, or ftp > > being in "non-interactive mode". The prework all runs correctly, > > I even set the hash byte count

Re: FTP and cron

2002-11-15 Thread John
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:41:24AM -0600, John wrote: > I'm having fits running ftp from cron jobs. Shell or "expect" > scripts that execute perfectly from the terminal fail in a seeminly non- > deterministic variety of ways when run from cron. Just for completeness, here are the cron results and

Re: FTP and cron

2002-11-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:39:31AM -0600, John wrote: > No, it's not something simple like cron not running expect, or ftp > being in "non-interactive mode". The prework all runs correctly, > I even set the hash byte count and get the feedback from that... > when the put command starts, though, t

FTP and cron

2002-11-15 Thread John
Hi. I'm still running FreeBSD 4.3, but I suspect the problem isn't specific to that one operating system. I'm having fits running ftp from cron jobs. Shell or "expect" scripts that execute perfectly from the terminal fail in a seeminly non- deterministic variety of ways when run from cron. No,