I have never managed to fetch anything with Net::FTP (I am a 3 day old CPAN newbie). I'm trying to install via the cpan command ("sudo cpan" on MacOsX Panther). Here is the the first error message: 

CPAN: Net::FTP loaded ok
Fetching with Net::FTP:
  ftp://ftp.perl.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Couldn't cwd authors at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/CPAN.pm line 2260

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Here are the lines around 2260 in CPAN.pm 
======code starts=============
 unless ( $ftp->cwd($dir) ){
    warn "Couldn't cwd $dir";
    return;
  }
=======code ends==============

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So, what I did was to insert an extra line into CPAN.pm, namely: 
print `pwd`;

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The output was '/Users/dbae/.cpan', so obviously 'authors' was not to be found. The correct directory to cwd to is sources/authors

So I've tracked down the error quite a bit, but I have no idea how to fix the error.

Any advice?

Another question: where should this question have been posted? I searched for Net::FTP on cpanforum, and got about 7 different groups, not one of which was recognizable by me.

Thanks a lot
David

Edited by Chady -- fixed formatting.

In reply to Net::FTP is NEVER successful by dbae

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