Good day. If I have linux ansible server (called server_ansible), then I would like to transfer a file from window server A to window server B.
How could I do?
Tried win_copy but not work.
Thank you.
I've had the same problem and resorted to a taks with a shell command using the scp -r option to transfer between two remote hosts.
scp -3 remote_user#ip_remote1:/path_to_source remote_user#remote2:/path_to_destination
You do however need to set up keys between the hosts.
A quick one, I have created an ansible playbook to connect my host group to particular remote mikrotik devices however the mikrotik OS command to upload a certain file to those devices is where I'm stuck. Someone please help. The mikrotik OS command to upload a certain file to the host group containg my remote devices.
Many Thanks
The easiest way is to use SCP command:
scp /your/local/file admin#your-mikrotik.cz:/
Then when you list files on mikrotik you can find your file in root directory :)
Also you can download file from MK same way:
scp admin#your-mikrotik.cz:/file /save/local/file
I have about 20 Macs on my network that always need fonts installed.
I have a folder location where I ask them to put the fonts they need synced to every machine (as to save time i will install the font on every machine so that if they move machines, i don't need to do it again)
at the moment I am just manually rsyncing the fonts from this server location to all the machines one by one using
rsync -avrP /server/fonts/ /Library/Fonts/
this requires me to ssh into every machine
is there a way i can script this using a hosts.txt file with the ips? the password is the same for every machine and i'd rather not type it 20 times. Security isn't an issue.
something that allows me to call the script and point it at a font i.e.
./install-font font.ttf
I've looked into scp but I don't see any example of specifying a password anywhere in the script.
cscp.sh
#!/bin/bash
while read host; do
scp $1 ${host}:
done
project-prod-web1
project-prod-web2
project-prod-web3
Usage
Copy file to multiple hosts:
cscp.sh file < hosts
But this asks me to type a password every time and doesn't specify the target location on the host.
I don't see any example of specifying a password anywhere in the script.
Use ssh-copy-id command to install your public key to each of these hosts. After that ssh and scp will use public-private key authentication without requiring you to enter the password.
I am running a local bootstrap.sh script from OSX on a remote Ubuntu server which does some "if else then" stuff to load a specific subscript.sh when a specific condition is met.
I am running that local script with:
ssh user#host "bash -s" <~/projects/projectname/bootstrap.sh
I am having issues with getting the subscript.sh sourced (loaded/included).
You can't. You're only sending the contents of bootstrap.sh to the remote shell. It's attempting to source subscript.sh on the remote machine, and it isn't there.
You'll need to either copy subscript.sh (or both scripts!) to the remote machine, or insert the contents of subscript.sh into bootstrap.sh in place of the source command.
What I would recommend is to rsync your 'bootstrap.sh' from your local computer to your server. You should be able to do this with your ssh credentials.
A very cool utility is Transmit. It is $25 and allows you to cleanly mount your server as if it were a portable hard drive (Transmit can also do synchronizations). All you need is ssh credentials and is very user friendly.
If you are allowed to install on your server, then I would install qsub on it. (Actually just check to see if it is installed.) Then just mount your computer's drive and you can submit scrips with qsub (I actually would just make a small server on your mac). This is what I use for using a linux cluster from my OSX computer.
Alternatively you can make a small server from your osx and have it mounted on your linux server.
I need to automatically copy files from a linux machine to a windows one every day.
I'm looking for something simple and secure like scp, rsync, sftp. Unfortunately, I'm at a loss of how to set this up on the Windows machine.
Does anyone know how to do this?
You can try mounting the Windows drive as a mount point on the Linux machine, using smbfs; you would then be able to use normal Linux scripting and copying tools such as cron and scp/rsync to do the copying.
You can find rsync for windows in cygwin, with that you can setup a rsync server on the windows box and run a cron job on your linux machine rsync'ing all the files to the windows machine. We used to do that and it worked fine.
"I'm at a loss of how to set this up on the Windows machine." Windows is the client or the server? At a loss means what, specifically? What can't you do?
"linux machine to a windows" can be done two ways.
Linux is client. Windows runs an FTP or SCP or SSH server. Linux has a client and pushes the file to Windows. Look at FileZilla for free windows FTP server. Also, windows often has an FTP service that's turned off. Turn it on.
Windows is client. Windows periodically pulls the file from the linux server. This is easier, since Linux already has all the necessary servers available. You do, howeveevr, need to start them on Linux.
There are scores of sftp, scp clients for Windows. Windows comes with an ftp client. Google for sftp client. You'll find WinSCP, Putty, filezilla, and list free country list of sftp clients.
I haven't used it in years now, but you could try Unison from http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
It could be done with 'smbclient', which acts much like an FTP client to a Windows share. Check out the manpage: man smbclient and look for ways to script it with the -c option, or man expect to drive it.
Here's how I'd probably do it though:
Pick which user you're going to be
when you sync the files. Log in as
this user and type 'id', and get the
numeric ID. You will use this ID in
step 4
Become 'root'
mkdir /mnt/sharename
Edit your /etc/fstab file and add an entry something like this. Replace the user ID of 500 with your user ID. Replace sharename with your windows share name. Replance WINDOWSHOSTNAME with your host name or IP address. If you don't know the shares, run smbclient -L WINDOWSHOSTNAME.
//WINDOWSHOSTNAME/sharename /mnt/sharename cifs credentials=/root/smblogin,uid=500,noauto,user 0 0
Edit /root/smblogin and put the following two lines in it
username=YOUR_WINDOWS_USERNAME
password=YOUR_WINDOWS_PASSWOD
Log in as the user from step 1.
Try mounting the share: mount /mnt/sharename
If that succeeds, then write a script to do it automatically. Let's call it 'backup.sh':
#!/bin/sh
df | grep -q /mnt/sharename
if test $? -ne 0 ; then
mount /mnt/sharename
fi
cp -r /path/to/dir /mnt/sharename/destination/
Use cron to run the script.
Type crontab -e
Put the following in the file:
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
# Backup at 2:15 A.M. every day. Run 'man 5 crontab' for help on the time format
15 2 * * * /path/to/backup.sh
You may try WinSCP and its scripting support. And Windows support some kind of cron-like operation in its management stuff, don't they?