My experience with Cygwin's ncftpget is that it mangles the file date, at
least under Win9X and NT. Haven't tested it under 2K/XP.
Jerry
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From: "Aaron Roydhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 4:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot Updater (using cygwin tools)
If you're a cygwin fan and have it installed on your IMail server ("Cygwin is
a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows",
http://www.cygwin.com/) then you'll have ncftp, unzip, and bash available, and
can schedule this script to run in your 'FProt' folder:
fprot-update.bash
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#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/ncftpget -V ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/f-prot/fp-def.zip
/usr/bin/ncftpget -V ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/f-prot/macrdef2.zip
if [ -s fp-def.zip ]; then
/usr/bin/unzip -qq -o -f -C fp-def.zip sign.def sign2.def -d
/cygdrive/c/FProt/
fi
if [ -s macrdef2.zip ]; then
/usr/bin/unzip -qq -o -f -C macrdef2.zip Macro.def -d /cygdrive/c/FProt/
fi
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This has some nice properties. It will only actually FTP each ZIP file if it
is newer that the one you already have. Also, it will only unzip each '.def'
file if it is newer than the one already installed. This means you can
schedule it to run quite often, without needless downloads or unduly stressing
the distribution FTP server.
To improve security, I recommend you create a special local user, with write
access to the 'FProt' folder and nothing else, and schedule the script to run
as that user.
This script doesn't update the f-prot binaries - I'm just not that trusting,
but you could easily extend it.
Aaron.
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http://www.toolbox.co.nz/
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