Hello.

I am trying to make a redundant job more efficient. I was wondering if you know if anything like this (or close to it) to this exist?

I would like to send via ftp video files are to a directory. A cron job would run at a certain time of the day (or I can ssh and enter the command to run it). The cron job triggers a script to extract video data from a Real Video file (title, author etc.) then post the videos on a web page with the video title, author etc as the link.

Does anyone know if something like this exist?

should not be too hard to implement using ftp (client), some commandline program to parse realmedia metadata and crontab. /joe

Joe/Zefo - Any ideas as to which program could do this? I am completely new to writing cron jobs.

Your help is kindly appreciated.

then i would really suggest reading some documentation and do some googling. ok, now i am not sure if i understood correctly but to me it seems you want the following:

1. cron configuration part

let cron daemon initiate the prepared script at given time (for this you need to have crond service running and appropriate line in /etc/crontab -> man crontab will tell you more)

2. script writing part

as for the artist/song info extraction maybe mplayer/ffplay could do that - i dont have any file to test with. once this is done the rest should be quite simple.

theoretically the script could look like this:

mplayer -identify movie.rm | awk/sed construction + storing appropriate values into variables (say artist and song)
ftp video_on_local_machine.rm remote_machine:/var/www/whatever/$artist-$song with corresponding .ftprc file in your home directory

What would be a good book or web site to read to learn about creating my own cron jobs?

once you stop mixing two different problems and start a separate thread yes, i will assist. bye for now, joe

My apologies. I have seperated the thread and posted a new topic under Linux general questions.