Re: FTP Question, Urgent

[James David Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 RReddy@medicalartspress.com wrote:

> Is there a way i can call a remote EXE file from AS400 FTP.??.

Short answer: no

Long answer:

> 1.) Send a file from AS400 to the Remote WinNT server.

easy

> 2.) Call a EXE program on the NT server.

Can't be done using ftp client (at least it better not - think of the
security implications - upload crackme.exe, run crackme.exe)

We did something which accomplishes the same task on UNIX.  We added a
cron job to check the upload directory for a new file (the AS/400 would
send this new file every so often).  If the file was found the cron job
would run a program using the file as input.  A result file was then
placed in the download directory for the AS/400 to retrieve.

> 3.) After the EXE program is done running, I need to check for an error
> file ( with name ERRFIL.txt )

See above

> 4.) If the file exists  then i need to get this error file back to AS400.

easy

> Please suggest any ideas. ( please note i am planning to this process from
> AS400 FTP process only )

So while you can't run remote programs using an ftp client, you can set up
the remote host to look for files you are sending it and then act on those
files.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com

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