I trying to setup a ftp job which will recursivly download a directory from a remote server...

here's the command I execute...
ncftpget -R -d log -u <username> -p <password> userftp.port.ac.uk /home/james '//ls32/public'

the command takes a few seconds does nothing and the returns to prompt without error..

However looking at the logs it seems that ncftp cannot obtain a recursive listing...

LibNcFTP 3.1.3 (March 4, 2002) compiled for linux-x86
Uname: Linux|robinjam.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com|2.4.18-3|#1 Thu Apr 18 07:37:53 EDT 2002|i686
Glibc: 2.2.5 (stable)
220: The University of Portsmouth
FTP Service

Service Ready for new User
Connected to userftp.port.ac.uk.
Cmd: USER .cam10902.cam.student.lan.port
331: Password Needed for Login
Cmd: PASS xxxxxxxx
230: User cam10902 Logged in Successfully
Cmd: PWD
257: "/USER/home/students/CAM/CAM10902" is Current Directory
Logged in to userftp.port.ac.uk as .cam10902.cam.student.lan.port.
Cmd: FEAT
500: 'FEAT' : Unknown Command
Cmd: HELP SITE
214: Syntax: SITE site-cmd (get valid site commands from QUOTE <sp> SITE <sp> HELP)
Cmd: CLNT NcFTPGet 3.1.3 linux-x86
500: 'CLNT NcFTPGet 3.1.3 linux-x86' : Unknown Command
Cmd: PWD
257: "/USER/home/students/CAM/CAM10902" is Current Directory
Cmd: CWD //ls32/public
250: Directory successfully changed to "/public/"
Cmd: CWD /USER/home/students/CAM/CAM10902
550: Invalid Path
Cmd: MDTM //ls32/public.tar
550: Invalid Path
Cmd: TYPE I
200: TYPE Command OK I
Cmd: PASV
227: Entering Passive Mode (148,197,251,144,11,44)
Cmd: RETR //ls32/public.tar
550: Invalid Path
Cmd: PWD
257: "/public/" is Current Directory
Cmd: CWD //ls32/public
250: Directory successfully changed to "/public/"
Cmd: TYPE A
200: TYPE Command OK A
Cmd: PASV
227: Entering Passive Mode (148,197,251,144,11,45)
Cmd: LIST -Ra
550: No Such Directory "/public/-Ra"
Cmd: CWD /public/
250: Directory successfully changed to "/public/"
Cmd: CWD /public/
250: Directory successfully changed to "/public/"
Cmd: QUIT
221: Closing Session


I tried adding the -T option to prevent the tar errors... and got this.....

230: User cam10902 Logged in Successfully
Cmd: PWD
257: "/USER/home/students/CAM/CAM10902" is Current Directory
Logged in to userftp.port.ac.uk as .cam10902.cam.student.lan.port.
Cmd: FEAT
500: 'FEAT' : Unknown Command
Cmd: HELP SITE
214: Syntax: SITE site-cmd (get valid site commands from QUOTE <sp> SITE <sp> HELP)
Cmd: CLNT NcFTPGet 3.1.3 linux-x86
500: 'CLNT NcFTPGet 3.1.3 linux-x86' : Unknown Command
Cmd: CWD //ls32
250: Directory successfully changed to "/"
Cmd: PWD
257: "/" is Current Directory
Cmd: CWD public
250: Directory successfully changed to "/public/"
Cmd: CWD /
250: Directory successfully changed to "/"
Cmd: PWD
257: "/" is Current Directory
Cmd: CWD public
250: Directory successfully changed to "/public/"
Cmd: PASV
227: Entering Passive Mode (148,197,251,144,11,40)
Cmd: LIST -Ra
550: No Such Directory "/public/-Ra"
Cmd: CWD /
250: Directory successfully changed to "/"
Cmd: CWD /
250: Directory successfully changed to "/"
Cmd: QUIT
221: Closing Session

Any ideas, think the remote system is netware if that makes a difference?
are there any other ways of doing this??

Try:

ncftpget -R -d stdout -u username -p password ftp.hostname /local/dir/from/root/ ' www.hostname/userdir/folder/to/download/'

eg.

ncftpget -R -d stdout -u rambo -p 2sQ_y9v5 ftp.myexternaldomain.com /home/rambo/bacu_up/ 'www.myexternaldomain.com/home/guest/myworkfolder/'

I use ncftpget quite a lot, and from the top of my head this looks ok, I do normally only pull single files, but have used it successfuly to archive entire websites etc.

I'd like to use ncftpget to download a file via ftp ... In the terminal window I tried

ncftpget ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub.....

But the error message I see in the terminal is

ncftpget: command not found


Does this mean I don't have it installed? How can I use nctftpget in the terminal?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

try:
whereis ncftpget
to make sure that it is installed...


You may need to give the full path to the command.
ie.
/usr/bin/ncftpget