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Subject: Re: auto-update a web site's content via ftp - expect? perl? From: Vidiot <brown@ftms.COM> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:17:21 -0600 (CST) >Would someone please suggest a good way for me to update the contents of a >web site automatically via a script? Expect? Perl? Ftp's macro language? > >I would like to update a couple of html files and a tarball daily. Use ncftp. === Subject: Re: auto-update a web site's content via ftp - expect? perl? From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 02:16:50 +0000 On 11 Mar 1999, in message <XFMail.990311011033.hugo.rabson@zetnet.co.uk> Hugo Rabson <hugo.rabson@zetnet.co.uk> wrote: | Would someone please suggest a good way for me to update the contents of a | web site automatically via a script? Expect? Perl? Ftp's macro language? | I would like to update a couple of html files and a tarball daily. Use rsync: http://rsync.samba.org/ Much faster and easier than ftp in any of its forms. Requires your ISP to run ssh (or, gag, rsh) - your ISP _does_ support that, don't they? No? Why not? Bug 'em, and bug 'em hard. I maintain synchronicity between home work and isp with rsync, syncing my home directory as well as my web data. With a little shell infrastructure this work is really trivial. i.e. I type "synczip" at work to sync my isp, I type "synchome" at home to sync home from my work data and "syncwork" at home to sync my work with my home system, and "syncdvd" to sync my DVD-RAM with my home system as a backup mechanism. If you have to use something primitive like FTP, ncftp is probably the go. === From: GOMEZ Henri <GOMEZ@slib.fr> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:18:42 +0200 Subject: sitecopy-0.5.1 Summary : copy web site files to server by ftp Description : sitecopy is for copying LOCALLY stored websites to REMOTE ftp servers. The program will upload files to the server which have changed locally, and delete files from the server which have been removed locally, to keep the remote site synchronized with the local site, with a single command. The aim is to remove the hassle of uploading and deleting individual files using an FTP client. sitecopy is NOT for copying websites onto your hard disk - if you want to do that, get a mirroring program. ===