[nmglug] filezilla,cron

[Michael]

I've belonged to the new mexico linux users group since the late 90's,
when I got my very first linux cdrom - a boxed set I got from
comp-usa in Albuquerque of Red Hat 5.1.

I've never attended a meeting, and I ignore most of the emails, but
occasionally, I'll get one that I can help with.

I got this one earlier, and I thought that would be easy to do with
a bash script and cron, so I tried a couple of things and came up
with one that gets the current time in seconds since the epoch,
redirects the output of the current contents of the subject file
to a new file with the time variable, then echo nothing
to the subject file to empty it.:
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#!/usr/bin/bash
MYTIME='date $s'
cat /path/to/subjectfile > /path/to/wherever/$MYTIME
echo > /path/to/subjectfile
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then I realized that he's using filezilla - an ftp client.  I did
ask him if he had some kind of shell access as you're a little
more limited with ftp.


On 04/03/2011 06:22 PM, Michael wrote:
>
> Do you have to use ftp ?  Or do you have ssh other shell access ?
>
>
> On 04/03/2011 05:10 PM, a wrote:
>> Dear Glug;
>> Does anyone understand how to use cron with filezilla.I would like to
>> limit the size of a cyclically enlarging file, on a repeating second day
>> purge cycle.
>> Regards
>> Anthony
>>
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