From: Adams Kevin J (kevin.adams@PHS.COM)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 17:58:45 EST
It may be beyond what you want to do just to get a condition code, but the
"expect" language is ideal for your situation.
Like Paul said, you could just save stdout to a file and parse it.
Kevin Adams
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul LaMadeleine [mailto:plamadeleine@LIGHTBRIDGE.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 2:06 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: [aix-l] Ftp script condition code 0
Unless the ftp binary dies in some horrible way (say a core dump or
something), then it will always exit with a 0. Just because the data
transfer failed does not mean ftp did not run correctly. As an example, say
you telnet somewhere, type in exec ls xyz123, and the ls fails, the status
of the telnet would still be 0.
In order to check if the command you want ftp to process happened, you'll
need to do some extra processing, either of parsing of output or something.
Hope this helps.
Paul
At 12:17 PM 2/12/2003 -0800, you wrote:
When I run ftp scripts I check for the condition code;
but I have found , that when the ftp fails -
say I don't connect - the condition code from the ftp
is always condition code zero.
Why does this occur ? Is there a circumvention to this issue ?
Here is a sample ( simplified ) script :
ftp -i -v clients.dns.name < my_ftp_parms
if [ $? != 0 ]
then
echo "myclient zip ftp error" >> /my/ftp5950/oztcmo.log
mail -s "UNZIP ERRORS" sgly0@ucop.ais.ucla.edu
<mailto:sgly0@ucop.ais.ucla.edu> < /my/ftp5950/oztcmo.log
exit 0
fi
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