Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:31:29 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Running FTP as a slave process ... Message-ID: <199604302031.NAA07745@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199604300902.SAA20627@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 30, 96 06:32:37 pm
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> This is actually a bit more of a general question than the subject suggests. > > I have a program that wants to shift stuff around using FTP. > (It wants to put, not get, so the ftp stuff in sysinstall isn't any help). > > So, I fork off a copy of /usr/bin/ftp -n and talk to it. It does > everything that I tell it to, which is fine. > > BUT > > I want to see whether what I've transferred has made it. So I issue an > 'nlist <blah>' command. Oddly enough, it gets written by the slave, > but doesn't immediately show up at my end; in fact it's not until I > ask the slave to quit that I hear it. > > If I had more time, I'd investigate further, but has anyone else done > this before, and what results did they get? Use libftp. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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