Hi Jim,
Thanks for the reply. Need some clarifications regarding the code snippet you have given. I believe this is a shell script for storing details of new ftp transfers in a file.

echo "
open node
# Open connection to the remote server
USER pass pswd
# Connect using user-id and password
verbose
# Switch off verbose
cd /somewhere
put somefile
# Some instructions
bye
" > /usr/bin/ftp -n >> /path/to/myftp.log
# What does '> /usr/bin/ftp -n' do exactly. Should it be reading '<' from /usr/bin/ftp and then writing to a file.
# How can I go about implementing this script so that details of all new ftp transfers are logged in a file.

Thanks in Advance
Nakul