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

Kicking off a script on the target box (AIX in this case) IS what I want
to do...:)

Thanks all...:)

Don in DC....

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On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

> 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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