Dev : FTP-ing In Windows Using Script

Have you ever using FTP in Windows? Commands are almost similar with Unix. You may have use Unix Shell script, but have you tried using Windows batch file to help you do the job, for example, getting some log files from a Unix Webserver, without the hassle of typing repeating ftp commands?

There are 2 method.

Method 1:
Create 2 files. 1 is a text file (ftp_cmd.txt) , another is a batch file (ftp_cmd.bat).

ftp_cmd.txt

FTPuserLogin FTPuserPassword cd /user/define/location mget userlogfile.log y bye

ftp_cmd.bat

@echo off ftp -s:ftp_cmd.txt serverhostname

Method 2:
Create 1 batch file (ftp_cmd.bat).

ftp_cmd.bat

@echo off echo FTPuserLogin> ftp_cmd.txt echo FTPuserPassword>> ftp_cmd.txt echo cd /user/define/location>> ftp_cmd.txt echo mget userlogfile.log>> ftp_cmd.txt echo y>> ftp_cmd.txt echo bye>> ftp_cmd.txt ftp -s:ftp_cmd.txt serverhostname del ftp_cmd.txt

Please take note that the batch file cannot be named as ftp.bat. This will cause confusion between your batch file and ftp command and it will keep on displaying a loop. Every details must not end with a white space.

Dev : Adding New User

In Solaris, adding user is not as 'too' simple as in Linux.

When we use "useradd -d /home/unixuser unixuser" in Linux, we will be automatically create a user called unixuser and a new directory call /home/unixuser will be created.

However, in Solaris, "useradd -d /home/unixuser unixuser" will only create a user call unixuser, but no user home directory will be created. To make it easy, just add in an extra parameter called "-m", as in create home directory. So the better command for created user in Solaris should be "useradd -d /home/unixuser -m unixuser".

For more information on unix useradd, see here.