Hmm ... I don't quite understand what the problem is since your manual ftp session is different than your scripted session. In the manual, you just list the contents of the remote machine. The numbered lines are the control channel and the Net::FTP module hides that from you (you shouldn't need to worry about it). See RFC959 for more info on the inner workings of ftp (control -vs- data channels).

In your scripted ftp session you state you're getting a "closed socket" error which is what I would expect given initial statement The equipment in question automatically reboots itself upon receipt of the new phonebook. So how would I handle the error? I wouldn't. I would just check the return value of the put and if okay, just exit: 

$FTP->put( $opb ) || die "An error occurred  with put";

print "All is well ... exiting\n";

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-derby

In reply to Re: FTP automation by derby
in thread FTP automation by TStanley

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