I just tried that and get the same response.
I also can't cd into any of the directories, see further example, I cd
to /, rels, it shows the directories in my home dir, I can cd into those
directories. However, so show with sftp, when I do the same thing I see
RootDirA/B and I can cd into RootDirA/B. It's like lftp although thinks
i've switched to /, hasn't actually managed to do that.
lftp [email protected]:~> cd /
cd ok, cwd=/
lftp [email protected]:/> rels
drwxrwxrwx 0 2002-06-24 08:50 .
drwxrwxrwx 0 2002-06-24 08:50 ..
drwxrwxrwx 0 2009-11-10 03:21 HomeDirA
drwxrwxrwx 0 2008-09-09 13:32 HomeDirB
lftp [email protected]:/> pwd
sftp://username:@x.x.x.x/
lftp [email protected]:/> cd RootDirA
cd: Access failed: The system cannot find the file specified. (/RootDirA)
lftp [email protected]:/> cd HomeDirA
lftp [email protected]:/HomeDirA> pwd
sftp://username:@x.x.x.x/HomeDirA
Any further ideas?
Gary
Jonathan Kaufman wrote:
Have you tried using rels to see if it's checking the ls cache instead of
actually sending an ls?
lftp :~> help ls
Usage: ls [<args>]
List remote files. You can redirect output of this command to file
or via pipe to external command.
By default, ls output is cached, to see new listing use `rels' or
`cache flush'.
See also `help cls'.
lftp :~> help rels
Usage: rels [<args>]
Same as `ls', but don't look in cache
Granted, I would have expected lftp to notice that you changed directories
and not look in the ls cache when you do an ls again.
Jonathan
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Hi,
I've recently been trying to script up downloading some files from an
sftp server, but am seeing some very strange differences between using
lftp and using sftp. I wonder if someone can see what i'm doing wrongly
with lftp. Example below:
[r...@abcd ~]# sftp -o "IdentityFile=/home/send/sshprivatekey"
[email protected]
Connecting to x.x.x.x...
sftp> ls
HomeDirA HomeDirB
sftp> cd /
sftp> ls
RootDirA RootDirB
The above works as expected, in my home directory I see some
directories. If I cd /, then ls again, I see some directories in the
root directory. However, when I do this with lftp I get this:
[r...@abcd ~]# lftp
lftp :~> set net:max-retries 1
lftp :~> set sftp:connect-program ssh -i /home/send/sshprivatekey
lftp :~> open -u username, sftp://x.x.x.x
lftp [email protected]:~> ls
drwxrwxrwx 0 2002-06-24 08:50 .
drwxrwxrwx 0 2002-06-24 08:50 ..
drwxrwxrwx 0 2009-11-10 03:21 HomeDirA
drwxrwxrwx 0 2008-09-09 13:32 HomeDirB
lftp [email protected]:~> cd /
cd ok, cwd=/
lftp [email protected]:/> ls
drwxrwxrwx 0 2002-06-24 08:50 .
drwxrwxrwx 0 2002-06-24 08:50 ..
drwxrwxrwx 0 2009-11-10 03:21 HomeDirA
drwxrwxrwx 0 2008-09-09 13:32 HomeDirB
As far as I can tell, the cd / worked ok, but when I ls, I get a list of
the contents of my home directory again?! I can't see anything obvious
that i'm doing wrong.
Unfortunately I have no idea what ssh/sftp server runs at the other end
and I don't think it would be easy to find out (unless there's some
magic I can perform with sftp?).
If it's helpful, this is lftp 3.7.11, on RHEL 5.4.
Thanks
Gary
