On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 19:10, Chuck_Sterling wrote: > 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 That is my .netrc file, the log in is fine it just won't do the macdef. sorry about the double post but my mailer freaked out for some reason.
