download and process a file by ftp at set intervals, with error handling, rescheduling and status messages
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I want to download a data file from a remote ftp server to my machine at regular intervals. Once the file is downloaded I want to call another script which will process the file.
My development machine is mac os x, the eventual deployment environment is linux.
What's would be the stock standard way to automate this?
I know I can use cron to…