From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-09-24T03:27:31+09:00
Subject: Re: net/ftp works manually, fails via cron

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Daniel Berger wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Ruby 1.8.2
> Solaris 10, Linux 2.6.8
>
> I'm experiencing something odd with net/ftp.  When I run the following 
> snippet manually it works fine.  Running the same snippet under cron seems to 
> fail.
>
> I don't get any messages in the log file.  No indication whatsoever that 
> there was a problem.  It's just that...nothing happens.  There is no file 
> transfer as far as I can see when run via cron.
>
> Any ideas?

path to ruby is fubar under cron?  what's the shebang line and cron line?



>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>
> # ftptest.rb
> require "net/ftp"
> include Net
>
> host     = "some_host"
> log_file = "ftptest.log"
>
> fh = File.open(log_file, "w+")
>
> begin
>   ftp = FTP.new(host)
>   ftp.login("djberge", "xxxxx")
>   ftp.chdir("local")
>   ftp.gettextfile("text.temp")
> rescue Exception => err
>   fh.puts("FTP ERROR: #{err}")
>   raise
> else
>   fh.puts("Got file")
> end
>
> begin
>   ftp.puttextfile("upload_test.txt")
> rescue Exception => err
>   fh.puts("FTP ERROR: #{err}")
>   raise
> else
>   fh.puts("Put file")
> end
>
> ftp.close
> fh.close
>

-a
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