Sample for cozsftp_client.rc?

[tracy.sisco@us.pgds.com]

Hello,

I just downloaded CoZ Toolkit v2.2.0 last week and am working through set-up. User's Guide pg. 7 discusses set-up of the Co:Z SFTP Client, indicating that the contents of /etc/ssh/cozsftp_client.rc and $HOME/.ssh.cozsftp_client.rc will be included at the start of the command. There's a 2-line example for the obsolete OpenSSH Accelerator, which doesn't apply to us. I also didn't find anything in the sample diretory.

Please tell me where I can find a samples to start with or an example of what kind of command line arguments are typically included in these override files.

I presume the one in /etc/ssh would apply to site-wide settings, while those in $HOME/.ssh would be user-specific settings or overrides to the site values. What is the default if one or none of these are specified?

Can several of these be set-up within the $HOME/.ssh directory and referenced at execution time? (I'm thinking of possible use by job scheduler, which might need to pick up different values by application, for example).

Thank you.

[coz]

The options specified in the cozsftp_client.rc files are usually related to the underlying ssh client session. So, for example, you might specify these commonly defined options:

COZSFTP_CLIENT_OPTS="-oConnectTimeout=60 -oServerAliveInterval=60 -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no"

If these are site-wide preferences, they would be placed in the /etc/ssh version of the file. If individual, they would go in $HOME/.ssh

Options specified here are typically static across all sessions.

WRT to you question about runtime selection of options - please refer to Appendix B "Session config files", specifically the file pattern specific options. File patterns can be set up to match on specific file names, setting the required Co:Z file transfer options.

Many of our customers use cozsftp in batch, rather than interactively. If you plan to do this, I would recommend that you look at the sample batch scripts in $COZ_HOME/samples/sftp_batch, which make batch invocation much simpler.

Thank you for the heads up on the accelerator example, we'll update the user's guide.

[tracy.sisco@us.pgds.com]

Thank you Steve. I'll have a look at Appendix B.

We'll likely use cozsftp almost exclusively in batch. So I'll also have a look at that sample.