Re: db backup script in gentoo

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Andrus <kobruleht2(at)hot(dot)ee> wrote:
>> Sorry, I'm no gentoo expert. It's certainly not the first distro I'd
>> recommend to someone just starting out with linux / unix. Time to
>> break out the google. I also found quite a few example scripts for
>> lftp with google in a few minutes.
>
> I must manage existing gentoo server where previous maintainer has left
> company.
> lftp is not found in gentoo and nobody knows how to activate it. So I must
> use existing ftp.

It sounds like the last guy there was no gentoo expert either.
Apparently the install command is something like

emerge lftp

but I can't confirm that, since I'm not sitting on a gentoo box.

> This issue may not realted to ftp program.
> I verified multiple times that file exists and is readable.
> Any ides why ftp does not find /root/my-backups/mybackup6.backup ? There

Because ftp is running as a cron? Doesn't have the right permissions?
Because it appeared the username and password were failing? Because
ftp wasn't designed to be scriptable? Maybe a lack of EOF in the
original example you posted. Could be a lot of reasons.

> must be something simple.
> Can /root directoy access from fpt program is disabled for some strange
> reason ?

What? Only root can access /root directory. Or do you mean something
else? Only things that should be run by root are things that
genuinely need to, and this doesn't look like one of them.

> [/root/my-backups/mybackup6.backup]

Looks like you're trying to write to the /root directory. Don't do that.