I need to come up with a Cron Job that automatically does an FTP. Anyone know what switches I could put in a script to allow FTP to do that (i.e. not make any prompts)?

Rob, What you can do is this.... Creat a script that runs the following command ftp -i remote_server < ftp_command_file The ftp_command _file has the ftp commands you need to use: eg cd /tmp get file.txt Put an entry in the cron that launches the script. In order to do this, you will require a .netrc file so that you are not prompted for a username and password. Hope this helps. Leigh

I use perl to do this. it is the way to go. shell is not nimble enough to do it well - save for the actual cron utility to call perl. If you would like an example I can send you a script; it requires perl with the networking modules built into it.

i have the same will as Rob, so yes i'd be pleased if you'd accept to send me your pearl script... thx in advance...