From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 30 17:33:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA26224 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 17:33:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA26219 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 17:33:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA08228; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 17:26:26 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605010026.RAA08228@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Running FTP as a slave process ... To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 17:26:26 -3100 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199605010021.JAA22856@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at May 1, 96 09:51:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > If I had more time, I'd investigate further, but has anyone else done > > > this before, and what results did they get? > > > > Use libftp. > > It appears not to be in -current, is this correct? I don't know. It's on my 2.1 box. I'd expect it to be ther for FTP install, which would run into the same problems you had trying to use a subprocess. There's also ncftp (which is less ideal). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.