Timothy Payne wrote: > It will log in but not run the commands, I've tried all kinds of > changes > but the samples in my book and on the web say this should work. I > just get ftp> after the login and it sits there taunting me. > > machine mydomain.com login name password XXXXXX macdef macro-name > cd /backup > lcd /home/timothy/backup > put *.gz.gpg > quit > > > > Any ideas would stop me from pulling out my hair :-) > > Tim... > If you're not using the .netrc file, you should have a look at how it's used. Once that is set up right, you can probably just echo the commands to ftp with a pipe. I haven't done this with Fedora or other Linux distributions, but do so routinely with Solaris... Chuck
