Hello

Let me declare that I'm a newbie to Unix shell.

We have a Linux server and many Unix stations. I know how to mount/umount and NFS between Linux and the Unix machines.

However I do not know how to copy a file/directory from Unix (hostname: sci_h12) to Linux m/c (host name in the n/w: e90testserver). I can FTP, Telnet into the Linux box but CANNOT copy files which, I think would be good to code into the shell script. 'rcp' command does not work saying 'connection refused', even though I tried with and without /username=<> /password=<>.

Could anyone let me knwo the reason and steps/commands to solve this problem?

Thanks!
Mahesh

Hi,
every OS use the the same commands for FTP.
/
ftp xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx IP or [uname] written in /etc/hosts
enter username and password *1
get or mget [filename] : will send the remote-file to your local direktory
put or mput [filename] : will send the local-file to the remote directory
quit : exit the ftp-session

*1 if you dont want to give user and pass for every ftp-login again :
- look at the tread : ftp without a username and password

try scp ( preferred to rcp) like below and see if this works,
assuming you have access to both machine.


scp sci_h12:/home/user1/dir1/file1 e90testserver:/home/user1/dir2/file2

if it complains , see what is auto path for scp by using 'which scp' at unix prompt and then use absolute path for scp in above command.

Hi All

Thanks. While I'll try the 'scp' method, I've meanwhile found another way to solve this problem, without risking the security of rlogin or rcp. Basically what I did using the shell script is:

1) Make dir in Unix(sci_h12) called /server, give full permission to it.
2) mount from Unix/server onto my Linux path (e90testserver)
3) Get PGM_NAME and PGM_PATH
4) Use the above variables to copy cp -r Unix/PGM_PATH/PGM_NAME to Unix/server (dir which mounted earlier to Linux)
5) Unmount Linux box
6) rmdir Unix/server

Tha above runs well as script pgm and when I later check in Linux box's path I find the whole dir (PGM_PATH/PGM_NAME) in it.

Regds
Mahesh