Re: Keep alive inactive FTP user account

Well , its 2 different processes

1) One actual FTP is done every 3 or 6 months by users

2) Second one is just a keep alive function running as an oracle job.

 

# If just logging in and login out with FTP account does the trick, nothing like it. I hope it will do

# Else, ;

   ;       every week or month, run through oracle job

        ;  FTP login

    ;      login successful, then look for a file

      ;    file not found

    ;      logout

Atleast , i'm hoping that one of the two will be considered some "activity" by Unix and keep the account alive.

Also, can do an ls after ;FTP login

thanks

 

 

On Feb 5, 2008 12:25 PM, Joel Kallman < joel_kallmanyahoo.com" target="_blank">joel_kallmanyahoo.com> wrote:

Amlan,

Maybe I'm missing something, but why don't you have your ftp process cleanup before you actually transmit the file. ; That way, it's always clean.

Also, what defines 'activity'.&nbsp; Is simply logging in considered activity?&nbsp; If so, then just have your "keep alive"; job login, do an 'ls9; and quit.

Joel

Amlan Das < das.amlangmail.com" target="_blank">das.amlangmail.com> wrote:

Hi All

I need help to a problem I face. I have described my solution and need some feedback if this is going to work or if any better solutions.

I am not sure if this is going to work or just logging into FTP server and doing a directory listing every month through a job will also work.

&nbsp;

Problem description:

 ; &nbsp; Every three months or 6 months, FTP user account is used to transfer a feeder file to a remote server through pl/sql packages as

&nbsp; &nbsp; part of business.&nbsp;But the FTP user account expires if inactive for three months as set in the security&nbsp;policy. The security folks will not

   change the security policy. My goal is to keep the FTP user account alive even when there is no business activity.

 

My Solution:

 &nbsp;  I log into FTP user account every month running as an Oracle Job and FTP a dummy file to the server.

 &nbsp; This will ensure some activity every month and will keep the account alive. But this also means removing the dummy file each time.

&nbsp;

I am sending this out to multiple groups, hoping somebody will provide some feddback.

 

Thanks and regards

Amlan

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