Re: Which Net::FTP method for this?"

am 08.11.2005 00:54:00 von 1usa

mailbox@cpacker.org wrote in news:1131399394.984937.72150
@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> I have a requirement that before data are sent to the remote host, an
> arbitrary series of commands may have to be issued. Typically only a
> "cd" to the destination directory will be issued, but sometimes there
> will be other stuff, such as "umask", "sunique", and the like. For the
> first version of my product, I got by with doing the "cd" using the
> "cwd" method. But now the customer is breathing down my neck about the
> complete implementation.

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> All I see in the documentation for Net::FTP on
> the CPAN Web site (perldoc hasn't been installed on our system)

Why not?

> is the method "quot" to handle an arbitrary command, and it doesn't
> want to do a "cd". I got it to do quot("site umask 022") and it
> returned a status of 2. When I tried quot("cd somedirectory"),
> though, it returned a status of 5 and didn't do the cd. I don't
> know what the status return codes mean. How should I proceed from
> here?

Some thoughts:

* Read the FTP RFC
* Turn Net::FTP debugging on.
* Do read the docs carefully:

http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/libnet-1.19/Net/FTP.pm:

quot (CMD [,ARGS])

Sinan
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Re: Which Net::FTP method for this?"

am 08.11.2005 14:42:16 von mailbox

A. Sinan Unur wrote:
> * Do read the docs carefully:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/libnet-1.19/Net/FTP.pm:

Do check a URL before you cite it. That one yields a NOT FOUND page.