Re^2: cwd of remote server using Net::FTP

I tried pwd(). It is returning '/'. my script is as follows.

use Net::FTP;

    $ftp = Net::FTP->new("Ram", Debug => 0)
      or die "Cannot connect to some.host.name: $@";

    $ftp->login("anonymous",'-anonymous@')
      or die "Cannot login ", $ftp->message;

$temp = $ftp->pwd();
print "test\n", $temp  ;

    #$ftp->get("test.txt")
    #' or die "get failed ", $ftp->message;

    $ftp->quit;
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Thanks & Regards

Nalina

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Re^3: cwd of remote server using Net::FTP by pg (Canon) on Dec 03, 2004 at 06:23 UTC
Net::FTP behaves in the same way as your command line ftp. I bet that, if you ftp from command line to the same site, then issue a pwd command, you will get the same thing, the root. So this is not a problem with Net::FTP module, but rather the server is configured in this way, and that was what you supposed to get. I tried to ftp ftp.sun.com, that was what I got. However this is not always what you get. When I try to ftp to a UNIX node on your company's network that I have account, I was led to my home directory.	[reply]

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Re^3: cwd of remote server using Net::FTP
by pg (Canon) on Dec 03, 2004 at 06:23 UTC

Net::FTP behaves in the same way as your command line ftp. I bet that, if you ftp from command line to the same site, then issue a pwd command, you will get the same thing, the root.

So this is not a problem with Net::FTP module, but rather the server is configured in this way, and that was what you supposed to get. I tried to ftp ftp.sun.com, that was what I got.

However this is not always what you get. When I try to ftp to a UNIX node on your company's network that I have account, I was led to my home directory.

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