In the last episode (Sep 28), Steve Suhre said:
I need to set up a cron job that will fetch a file using ftp and a
password. I've tried several versions of the commands as described in
the man page and the Auto-Fetch section but I'm getting an error that
makes me think I'm missing something...
Steve Suhre wrote:
I need to set up a cron job that will fetch a file using ftp and a
password. I've tried several versions of the commands as described in
the man page and the Auto-Fetch section but I'm getting an error that
makes me think I'm missing something...
If I use the suggested
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:04:34 -0600
Steve Suhre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I use the suggested syntax:
ftp ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path
I get:Can't locate or login to host `user'
It looks like ftp is not aware of the man page and wants the server
where the login
Thanks, wish I could say the same I'm running 4.6 on this machine. The
man pages in 4.6 give the syntax so I assumed it would work. I tried
fetch also and got a parsing error. I'll try grabbing a newer version of
ftp and/or fetch and see if that works.
At 09:12 AM 9/28/2004, you wrote:
Try ncFTP. GREAT commandline client with resume and more features..
-Original Message-
From: Steve Suhre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 5:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FTP command line syntax
Thanks, wish I could say the same I'm running
PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FTP command line syntax
Thanks, wish I could say the same I'm running 4.6 on this machine. The
man pages in 4.6 give the syntax so I assumed it would work. I tried
fetch also and got a parsing error. I'll try grabbing a newer version of
ftp and/or fetch
In the last episode (Sep 28), Steve Suhre said:
Thanks to all, ncftp worked with a .netrc file. I'm good to go.
For strictly batch purposes, ncftpget lets you specify everything on
the commandline without requiring a .netrc, and returns a more specific
error-code that helps you narrow down
Thanks Dan, I tried that and it wouldn't take. The remote server refused
the login info using -u and -p. I think this will work for my purposes, the
server here needs to download just one file each day. If I run into trouble
I'll work on the command line thing some more...
At 11:02 AM
