Re: Commands via FTP on a target unix box...

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I thought that's what he wants to do - kick off a script on the unix box?

On the 400, 'rcmd' is a subcommand of the ftp server. Is this a 400-only
addition to ftp? I could not find it in AIX documentation for the ftp daemon.

At 11:15 AM 4/8/02 -0500, you wrote:
>From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com>
>
> > I would think some variant of 'quote rcmd'. The program or script you want
> > to run would follow that, with parameters following. Obviously, someone has
> > to tell you what to call.
> >
>
>AFAIK, rcmd as a command on Unix has this syntax:
>rcmd remotehost [ -l user ] [ command ]
>and will not do. In the Unix environment, rcmd is
>used to run a command on a remote host, not to run
>a command on the host that encounters the command.
>
>
>
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