[96415] in RedHat Linux List
Re: mirroring local html tree to an ISP server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lconrad@world.std.com)
Tue Oct 27 00:12:47 1998
From: lconrad@world.std.com
To: redhat-list@redhat.com, jmkeller@radix.net
Date: 27 Oct 1998 00:11:27 -0500
In-Reply-To: James Michael Keller's message of "Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:03:32 -0500"
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James Michael Keller <jmkeller@radix.net> writes:
> I'm looking for something that I can put in as a crontab and have it
> mirror my local boxes public_html dir to my ISPs. Since they have more
> bandwith.
>
> Something that would keep it the same - such as removing files, or just
> nuke the target dir then upload from the local dir.
>
> I've looked at some of the mirror programs, but they are all set up for
> the opposit path - the remote server to here.
>
> I've gotten ftp to work with a password file so I guess I could cook up
> a script or something. But I have other coding projects to worry about
> at the moment, this being midterms and all :)
I had the same problem. The solution I'm using now is to have a
Makefile in the local directory, and an ftp script (actually using
ncftp) which uploads the targets that actually changed. I can email
anyone who's interested the actual makefile. The disadvantage of this
approach is that the makefile does have to know what the targets are.
I recommend using something besides ftp, which doesn't know whether to
upload ascii or binary, and doesn't report failure to the script. I
did use an expect script that did an ftp, but I found it wasn't a good
solution.
I also have an expect script which logs on to the ISP and runs a
script, so I could now use one of the mirroring programs if I wanted
to. I could also email this to anyone who's interested.
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Laura (lconrad@world.std.com, http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ )
(617) 661-8097
233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
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