FTP script

woffer · Post by **woffer** » Tue Nov 13, 2001 3:43 pm

Hmm... is it possible to make the bot to check if a FTP is online or not? .. exec ftp if able to login return 1 else return 0
but in real code ? =)

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Wcc · Post by **Wcc** » Wed Nov 14, 2001 2:22 am

It would be easy to see if the ftp accepts connections on a certian port, do you actually need it to LOGIN?

woffer · Post by **woffer** » Wed Nov 14, 2001 7:41 am

I need it to login to see if the owner hasen't changed password or anything. =)
Mission Impossible 4 =)

stdragon · Post by **stdragon** » Wed Nov 14, 2001 9:19 am

If your shell has the command "ncftpls" then it's really easy. "ncftpls" is a program that lets you do a directory listing of an ftp site. You specify host, port, username, password, and it returns a code depending how things went. Read "man ncftpls" for info on the return code (basically, 0 = success, non-zero = failure).

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% puts [catch "exec ncftpls ftp://ftp.eggheads.org"]
0
% puts [catch "exec ncftpls ftp://sheep.are.good.com"]
1
%

With a little work, such as getting the arguments for username/password right, ncftpls should be able to help you out a lot.

woffer · Post by **woffer** » Wed Nov 14, 2001 9:58 am

Thanks man!
ncftpls comes as standard in slack8 so i had it =)

one more time: Thanks! =)

blaster^ · Post by **blaster^** » Sun Nov 18, 2001 6:54 am

it exists a FTP package tcl extension or if your tcl version is recent, it is now included in the tcllib
anyway see
http://home.t-online.de/home/Steffen.Tr ... indexe.htm