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I need to know if the connection fails to the remote host in a shell script. Which error codes etc should I check for? What would be in the if statement? example, I use: ftp -n -i <<-EXIT open $REMOTE_HOST if ??????????
Name: stefan caunter Date: July 17, 2001 at 19:44:47 Pacific
Reply:
what you need to do is test for the exit status of the ftp command in a subshell first set a variable to be the exit status of ftp -n -i; if it is 0 everything is ok, if it is greater than 0, problem. soooo....
$var=`(ftp -n -i $REMOTE_HOST; echo $?)` if [$var -eq 0] ; then user xxxxx pass xxxxx elif [$var -gt 0] ; then echo "Could not connect to $REMOTE_HOST"
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