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FTP script to automate file transfers to remote server
Below you will find a FTP script that will allow you to automate your files transfers without requiring any user input. The only problem with this method is you will be putting a username and password into the script file, but having a simple automated FTP file upload or FTP file download probably outweighs the drawback.
So to describe what this script does:
First the script will tar and zip all files and folders in the /var/log/ folder to the home directory of the user who runs the script. This will create a dated zip file in the user’s home folder who ran the script. Then it will FTP the files to the remote host. You can then add the script to a cron job to execute it everyday, week, hour, etc.
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WMV Playback on MAC
There are many options for what to use to play WMV files on OS X. The first of these is Flip4Mac which is a plugin for Quicktime. With Windows Media® Components for QuickTime, by Flip4Mac™, you can play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) directly in QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using a Web browser. Here are 2 links
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Link #2
cellent option is VLC player for MAC (this is my favourite media player):
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Using the SCP command
SCP aka secure copy or ssh copy is just about the easiest way to quickly transfer files and folders on X based systems without the need to setup FTP servers and accounts. The scp command we use most often just for single files is:
scp -P port file1 user@server2:~/This will simply copy file1 to the home directory of the user on server2. Since we use a non standard port, the -P is very important.
Sometimes we want to dump a whole folder with subfolders using scp. This command will scp the folder and subfolders to the home folder of user at server2:
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MAC OS Error code -6602
A user was trying to connect to a windows network share and kept receiving MAC OS error code -6602. Strangely enough there does not seem to be much useful information on this error so here is what we found.
