[svlug] Problem in SSH !

[Anagha Tongaonkar]

Hello Folks,

Thank you for your replies on the FTP problem. The use of
"bin" mode indeed solved the problem.

Now, I am running into next problem that is: after the file
transfer using FTP, I ssh into machine B and then try to
run an executable "Compress" on machine B. However, the
executable is not executed completely, it just hangs
halfway. If I run the same execuatble on command line on B,
it works fine, but if I ssh into B from A (through bash
script) and then try to run the executable, it just doesn't
run completely. 

Any idea, what can be done to resolve this problem?

Thank you,
Anagha



--- Dan Martinez <steeljack at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anagha Tongaonkar wrote:
> 
> > I am using a bash script that uses ftp command to
> transfer
> > file "report.txt" from machine A to machine B.
> > However, after executing this script, at the receiving
> end
> > the file size seems to have increased.
> > 
> > Source
> > report.txt on machine A:
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 user   group        1166 Aug  2 17:35
> > report.txt
> > 
> > After FTP using the bash script:
> > Destination
> > report.txt on machine B:
> > -rw-r--r--    1 uesr     group          1232 Aug 03
> 00:36
> > report.txt
> > 
> > 
> > As you can see the destination file size (1232) is
> greater
> > than the source file size (1166).
> > 
> > Any idea, why is the file size different on the source
> and
> > destination?
> 
> First guess: FTP is not running in "binary" mode, and is
> therefore
> converting linefeeds characters to
> linefeed/carriage-return pairs.
> 
> Within the context of your script, you might try adding
> the command
> "binary" (without quotes) right after you log in with the
> "user"
> command.
> 
> If that doesn't work, more information would be helpful.
> What type of
> hosts are machine A and machine B? What does the file on
> machine B
> look like?
> 
> In general, FTP is probably not the best tool for copying
> a single
> file between hosts which you have authorization to use. I
> would use
> scp, or rsync-over-ssh. Either of these should resolve
> the
> binary-versus-non-binary problem. With a
> properly-configured
> ssh-agent, they would, as a bonus, obviate the need to
> type your
> password every time you wanted to transfer a file.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dan
> 


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