Unix Programming - Re: Need code example to detect FTP server outage and do auto failover

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Re: Need code example to detect FTP server outage and do auto failover

Lőrinczy Zsigmond

2004-09-02, 6:51 pm

Bryan Cummings wrote:
> I have a batch script writen in unix shell (csh) that pulls feed files
> from a remote FTP server. If that FTP server is down (or the account
> is locked), I would like to have the shell script be able to detect
> this and do some other action (connect to a secondary FTP mirror and
> send email warning).
>
> If anyone has done this before or just has an idea of how to go about
> doing this I would appreciate it.

This is what program "expect" is good for