[thelist] perl and ftp

Jonathan Lim jonathan.lim at netdecisions.co.uk
Tue Jul 4 08:35:41 CDT 2000


Your ftp root may differ to the full path depending on who you are logging
in as.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Erik Sabowski [SMTP:Erik.Sabowski at noaa.gov]
> Sent:	28 June 2000 23:35
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> Subject:	[thelist] perl and ftp
> 
> i'm using perl's Net::FTP module to connect to large number of ftp
> servers, and it's working quite well except for one server. on all the
> servers, i issue a get command along with the entire path to the file,
> so it's something like path/to/the/file/file.Z. but this won't work on
> this one particular server. i even logged in manually, and even then,
> issuing a get command with the full path results in a 'file not found.'
> but when i go to the directory and just do get file.Z, it works. any
> ideas as to why this is happening? thanks
> 
> #airyk
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