Net::FTP will allow you to deal with FTP sessions.

You can't FTP to a machine that isn't running an FTP server.
I'm not sure if it's possible to check for the status returned when FTP commands fail - I'm pretty sure it is possible, but I'd have to RTFM.

Your question is rather unclear - are you trying to connect to a remote box and carry out an FTP transaction, or are you trying to monitor a system locally by FTP'ing to yourself and/or run a command like 'top' or 'ps'?

Update: Thinking about this, some well placed error checking (eval statements? Don't quote me on that) should let you know if the initial connection attempt to the FTP server failled...

In reply to Re: FTP question. by BazB
in thread FTP question by maslas

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