Re: Transferring files between computers using php

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Peter Ford wrote:
> Aschwin Wesselius wrote:
>> Rahul wrote:
>>> I have a small file to be transferred between two computers every few
>>> seconds. I'm using unix with a bare bones version of php, i.e. just
>>> the original thing that gets installed when I run "yum install php".
>>> As there is no webserver on any of these machines, I was wondering if
>>> there is a way to transfer a small file between them and if there is,
>>> could someone be kind enough to provide me with an example please?
>>>
>>> Thank You 
>> You can use netcat (nc), but that doesn't run in daemon mode. You can
>> use them both ways (client / server, sending / receiving). You can use
>> them on the commandline with a cronjob or whatever.
>>
>> Netcat makes it possible to do this, to send content over to port 2200
>> of 192.168.1.1:
>>
>> cat textfile.txt | nc 192.168.1.1 2200
>>
>> On 192.168.1.1 all you do is something like this:
>>
>> nc -l -p 2200 > textfile.txt
>>
>> I don't know all the options in depth and may not work like scp does
>> (which is way more secure).
>>
>> So I would go with scp in a cronjob, but netcat is still an option.
>>
>>
> 
> Here's overkill: use "fuse" to make two sshfs filesystems :)
> 
> # Make some directories to mount the remote stuff onto
> mkdir -p mount_point_for_B
> mkdir -p mount_point_for_C
> 
> # Use 'fuse' to make SSHFS mounts from the remotes to the new directories
> sshfs B:/path_to_where_the_file_is    mount_point_for_B
> sshfs C:/path_to_where_the_file_goes  mount_point_for_C
> 
> # Copy the file across: repeat this step every few seconds (cron job?)
> cp mount_point_for_B/the_file_to_copy   mount_point_for_C
> 
> # Unmount the SSHFS mounts when you're finished
> fusermount -u mount_point_for_B
> fusermount -u mount_point_for_C
> 
> 
> Still not PHP though...
> 
> 
> 
Easier in a cron:

scp user@B:/path/file /tmp/
scp /tmp/file user@C:/path/

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