Thanks, wish I could say the same.... I'm running 4.6 on this machine. The man pages in 4.6 give the syntax so I assumed it would work. I tried "fetch" also and got a parsing error. I'll try grabbing a newer version of ftp and/or fetch and see if that works.
At 09:12 AM 9/28/2004, you wrote:
In the last episode (Sep 28), Steve Suhre said: > I need to set up a cron job that will fetch a file using ftp and a > password. I've tried several versions of the commands as described in > the man page and the Auto-Fetch section but I'm getting an error that > makes me think I'm missing something... > > If I use the suggested syntax: > > ftp ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path > > I get: Can't locate or login to host `user'
Works for me:
$ ftp ftp://doesnt:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path Connected to ftp.gftp.netscape.com. 220-35 220 ftpnscp.newaol.com FTP server (SunOS 5.8) ready. 331 Password required for doesnt. 530 Login incorrect. ftp: Login failed. ftp: Can't connect or login to host `ftp.netscape.com' 221 Goodbye. $
What version of FreeBSD are you running?
-- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- Steve Suhre Antero web technologies 719.634.8161 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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