Re: FTP script problem

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Scott Klement  http://www.scottklement.com

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, David Gibbs wrote:

> -----
> userid     password
> quot site namefmt 0
> binary
> quot rcmd crtlib rmtlib
> quot rcmd crtsavf rmtlib/rmtsavf
> put lcllib/lclsavf rmtlib/rmtsavf
> quit
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> (yes, there are more than one blank space between the user id & password)

Does it work if you only specify one blank between the userid and 
password?  (I'm sure you've thought of this already, but you didn't say in 
your message)

> I'm overriding INPUT to the script, and OUTPUT to a log file, both are
> source pf's.

No clues in the OUTPUT?

> This worked fine last month ... but now it's not working.
>
> Any suggestions where to look?  AFAICT, there's been no changes to the
> system at all.

To which system?  I assume that the client doesn't attempt to interpret 
the userid and password... it just sends it to the other system, and that 
system is what's sending you the error.  So were there changes to the 
server?

The other possibility is that maybe the client used to strip out the 
spaces, but stopped doing it (due to some mysterious unknown factor) and 
in that situation it would be the client.

I'd start by removing the extra spaces and seeing if it solves the 
problem. If it does, great... if not, you'll have to narrow down which 
side of the connection the error is on and proceed from there.