Re^2: Net::FTP is NEVER successful

Thanks for your reply. The error message is from CPAN.pm, one of the files on my own system. I believe that this perl program is looking for the directory "authors" in my $HOME/.cpan. In fact, the correct pathname is $HOME/.cpan/sources/authors, so it should be trying to cwd to "sources/authors". But I could be wrong about what the code means. I guess I could check it out by making a symbolic link to get round this error. But I would prefer to configure cpan correctly so it doesn't happen. David

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Re^3: Net::FTP is NEVER successful by runrig (Abbot) on Jul 28, 2005 at 21:27 UTC
`$ftp->cwd(...)` tries to change directories on the remote system, not on the local system. To change directories on the local system, you would just use chdir.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Net::FTP is NEVER successful by dbae (Beadle) on Jul 28, 2005 at 21:39 UTC
Thanks a lot. I misunderstood what the code meant. So I think this is getting close to solving my problem. I wonder if I got the correct address when I set up the config file with cpan> o conf init My urllist contains the address ftp://ftp.perl.org/. Maybe it should be ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/?? David	[reply]