I know what you feel, the same problems with Net::FTP was bothering me for quite a while. What solved it for me was checking all values in use - and wrapping the whole process in an eval.

The code below is a result of fixing things that has gone wrong over time, and now it doesn't crash my program anymore. It uses the Net::FTP default timeout of 10 minutes (if memory serves me right), which doesn't make the program die, and has evals and checks on the things that do make it die: 

if ($ftp_address && $ftp_user && $ftp_password) {
    eval {  
        my $ftp = Net::FTP->new($ftp_address, Passive => 1);
        if ($ftp) {
            $ftp->login($ftp_user,$ftp_password);
            $ftp->cwd($ftp_directory) if $ftp_directory;
            $ftp->put($ftp_filename);
            $ftp->quit;
        } else  {
            # FTP object no good
        }
    }; # Eval ends.
   
    warn "error $@" if $@;
}

In reply to Re: Net::FTP problems by matsmats
in thread Net::FTP problems by panaman

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