ftp and cron

ronn63 · 12-05-2013, 02:25 PM

Hey guys and gals!!

I have a crontask set to run every night at 2:00AM. I put the string "MAILTO="someone@aplace.com"

The email tells me that a cron task ran at 2:00AM. This cron task is to FTP some files from a remore server. I'm using lftp, and that works like a champ. What I'm looking for from the email is the output of the command, ie: what files were transferred, if any.

Much appreciate any help offered.

colucix · 12-05-2013, 02:44 PM

You can set the option:

Code:

set xfer:log 1

to make lftp write the file transferred in ~/.lftp/transfer_log. Then you can simply send the file as attachment using mutt or uuencode. If you want the content of the file to be inserted in the mail sent by the cron job, just put

Code:

cat $HOME/.lftp/transfer_log

at the end of your script and it will be sent together with the standard output and the standard error of your script. Hope this helps.