I have a script (really 2) that ftps a file to another server.
If I run the script manually it processes fineas a normal user.
I then put it into cron and it has failed.
Sometimes I get nothing in my log and sometimes I get 'EPSV': command not understood.
The file is created by root
Here is my command and the file it executes.

command:
#!/bin/sh
ftp -n < /opt/mace/ftp_thedb.sh

file to execute:
open xx.xx.xx.xx
quote user ftpuser
quote pass ueserpass
binary
lcd /backup_dir
put lits2*
quit


What am I missing?????????
thanks
ljmace1953

I think the above is the command that triggers the error, since in some cases the pass command is the short form of passive, which toggles the passive mode transfer. I have not investigated this further, anyway you can offer the password by means of the user command, as in
without the command quote, otherwise it is not understood.

First I'd like to thank you who helped.
Now to be humbled. After redoing the scripts with somesuggestions only 1 of my 3 transfers worked.
Humm must be a timing problem, I'll change the order they are started and wait until the next day and see what happens.
Well I just got my 1st pair of glasses(at 54) and when I went in to edit cron I notices something funny.
Instead of having 2>&1 I had 2>$1 at a 10 font the 2 signs looked simular. The reason it happened on 2 ftps on 2 different servers is the name transfer were the same so I just cut and pasted the error.
Thanks for the help(eating crow)
Mace