Hi Costas,

I would use something like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Net::FTP;

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new("ftp.host.name")
or die("Couldn't connect: $@\n");

$ftp->login("Username");
$ftp->cwd("/pub/scripts/networking");
$ftp->get("ping.pl");
$ftp->close;
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The error will be stored in the special $@ variable.

Hope this helps,

Thanks,
-DigitalKitty