Re: I have a .cgi create a file, can I have it automatically FTPed to me or something?

I've always found the easiest way to do this is to e-mail.
Open sendmail as a file and put all the info you need into it. Once you close the e-mail "file" sendmail will ship it off. Depending on your server and volume of e-mail, you should get it nearly instantly.
I have a perl script which does exactly this any time anyone views a home listing on my realty site. It e-mails me the page they looked at, their e-mail address, etc. and I never even have to connect to my server.

Very handy.

open(SM,"|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t");
print SM <<OUT;
To: me\@me.net
From: server\@yourserver.com
Subject: results

$msg_text

OUT
close(SM);
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cidaris

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Re: Re: I have a .cgi create a file, can I have it automatically FTPed to me or something? by sschneid (Deacon) on Jun 27, 2002 at 22:19 UTC
Sweet! What's the address of your server? I'd love to check out your /etc/passwd file... Seriously, though, piping to sendmail is a big, big no-no, especially if it's being done through the web with user-entered data. Look at Mail::Send and a more secure way to do the same thing. Other than that, I'd definitely suggest e-mailing the file as a great alternative to having to ftp in manually to retrieve the file. scott.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: I have a .cgi create a file, can I have it automatically FTPed to me or something? by cidaris (Friar) on Jun 28, 2002 at 14:51 UTC
The message text that gets sent out gets run through several checkers first. In my case, if it's not plain old text, it doesn't get sent, just saved to a file, and I get e-mailed about the file's existence. However, I'd really like to hear about why it's a big big No-No. cidaris	[reply]


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