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?
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
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?
Some questions:
Did you add it to the root user's crontab or your user account's crontab?
When you run it manually and it works, are you running it as root or as yourself?
In the crontab, did you specify the absolute path to both the ruby interpreter and to your script file?
Jamey
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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
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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?
Some questions:
Did you add it to the root user's crontab or your user account's crontab?
When you run it manually and it works, are you running it as root or as yourself?
In the crontab, did you specify the absolute path to both the ruby interpreter and to your script file?
Nope, whoops, that was it. I think I goofed the crontab, too, which is why I got no error message.