I believe that when it's not running from a terminal, lftp isn't as verbose with it's output. There's probably an argument or config option to change that.
On Oct 3, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Ski Kacoroski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a simple perl script that creates some csv files and uploads them to a > vendor. The problem code is: > > sub UploadCSV { > my $results = `/usr/bin/lftp -e "mput /var/spool/discoveryed/*.csv;bye" -u > ZZZZZZZZ,'YYYYY' transfer.discoveryeducation.com 2>&1`; > print "ftp return: $results\n"; > if ( $results =~ /Total 4 files transferred/) { > print "Discovery Education Upload Ok\n\n$results"; > `rm /var/spool/discoveryed/old/*`; > `mv /var/spool/discoveryed/*roster*.csv > /var/spool/discoveryed/roster.prev`; > `mv /var/spool/discoveryed/*.csv /var/spool/discoveryed/old`; > } else { > print "Discovery Education Upload Failed\n\n$results"; > } > } > > My output from the cron job is: > > ftp return: > Discovery Education Upload Failed > > However in reality, the upload was successful (I can see the files on the > vendors site. When I run it from the command link the $results are: > > webapp:/opt/ski# ./DiscoveryEducation.pl > ftp return: 7452635 bytes transferred in 16 seconds (449.3K/s) > Total 4 files transferred > > Discovery Education Upload Ok > > 7452635 bytes transferred in 16 seconds (449.3K/s) > Total 4 files transferred > > Any ideas why the $results variable is not being set when the job is run from > cron or how I can debug this problem. I am using perl 5.10.0. > > Thanks, > > ski > > > -- > "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it > connected to the entire universe" John Muir > > Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, [email protected], 206-501-9803 > or ski98033 on most IM services > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
