Re: $ftp not connecting to server

Hmmm ... creating a tmp file and exec'ing it isn't very perlish. Using what you have, your Net::FTP should look like this:


#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Net::FTP;

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new( "windows.ftp.server", Debug => 0 )
             or die "Cannot connect to windows.ftp.server: $@";

$ftp->login( "userid","password" )
  or die "Cannot login ", $ftp->message;

$ftp->cwd( "/download" )
  or die "Cannot change working directory ", $ftp->message;

$ftp->get( $downFile, $ftpFile )
   or die "get failed ", $ftp->message;

$ftp->quit;
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(and that's pretty much straight out of the docs).

-derby

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Re^2: $ftp not connecting to server by IronCore (Initiate) on Oct 09, 2009 at 21:56 UTC
derby, I tried your code and it failed to connect. Do I have to define the server to windows somewhere? Like with ODBC for databases. I put my mainframe server name (which is an alias) in your code and it does connect. I'm a mainframer who has been forced at gun point to dance on the small platform side :-) so i'm not familiar with all of the ins and outs of window. thanks.	[reply]
Re^3: $ftp not connecting to server by derby (Abbot) on Oct 10, 2009 at 02:00 UTC
IronCore the windows server name needs to resolve and there needs to be an ftp server running there. Have you tried connecting to the machine with a normal ftp client? -derby	[reply]
Re^4: $ftp not connecting to server by IronCore (Initiate) on Oct 12, 2009 at 18:12 UTC
derby, shees I found the problem, I need to ftp through our proxy server. Once I did that perl ftp work just fine. Thanks a lot for your help.	[reply]
Re^4: $ftp not connecting to server by IronCore (Initiate) on Oct 12, 2009 at 16:41 UTC
derby, I tried pinging the server and it times out. I'm missing something.	[reply]
Re^5: $ftp not connecting to server by derby (Abbot) on Oct 12, 2009 at 16:54 UTC
Re^2: $ftp not connecting to server by IronCore (Initiate) on Oct 09, 2009 at 22:14 UTC
derby, I forgot to respond to your tmp file comment. The program that sample came from is used to ftp many different files depending on passed parms. If there's a cleaner way to do it I'm certainly open to it. I do need to save the ftp output messages to a file though. thanks,	[reply]