CentOS - Jun 2011 - [SOLVED] Re: Capturing ftp reponses

On Thu, June 2, 2011 15:23, James B. Byrne wrote:
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> However, the first line that I find in the logging file is the
> results of the dir command following the user command.  Can someone
> tell me how I can capture and log the initial response to the ftp
> connection?
I since discovered that to capture remote host responses one must
specify the -v (verbose) option to the ftp client: $ ftp -v
host.domain.tld

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On 6/2/2011 3:58 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
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>
> On Thu, June 2, 2011 15:23, James B. Byrne wrote:
>
>>
>> However, the first line that I find in the logging file is the
>> results of the dir command following the user command.  Can someone
>> tell me how I can capture and log the initial response to the ftp
>> connection?
>
> I since discovered that to capture remote host responses one must
> specify the -v (verbose) option to the ftp client: $ ftp -v
> host.domain.tld
Depending on what you are doing with the responses you might find it 
easier to work with a tool that was intended to be automated (curl, 
wget, perl's Net::FTP, etc.) instead of scripting ftp itself.

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