Shell Programming and Scripting

I think Porter has a point. Are you connected to the telnet or ftp port? What error messages are you getting? If you are connecting to ftp, have you tried the "help" command?

Well it seems we came to the truth. help returns something that i was afraid of all the time.

Code:

214-The following SITE commands are recognized
ALIAS
CHMOD
IDLE
UTIME
214 Pure-FTPd - http://www.pureftpd.org/

that probably means i have available only these four commands.
What's the idea of having only these commands? Security/.?

Thanks!!!

You are obviously connected to the FTP port. As Porter stated, there are only a limited number of commands available in FTP and the find command is not one of them. This machine appears to be more restrictive than some. This also explains the acceptance of upper case commands - FTP is sometimes more forgiving about case.

But, what are my options after this? can i make and upload a batch file to the server and then execute it programatically?

And again i am confused; if it allows the CHMOD why it doesn't allow -R (recursive execution) of the CHMOD command? It doesn't make sense that i cannot execute CHMOD with -R ... correct me if i am wrong. Thanks!!!

FTP and shell are different animals. The unix shell chmod is different from the ftp chmod. They are related by a common name and function, but are not the same thing. You could try "help chmod" to see what options FTP's chmod supports.

You are confusing what is available to you under FTP and what is available in a normal unix shell. There are vast differences. Think of it as the difference as to what's available logging into a windows ftp server and what is available at a DOS prompt. That is part of what initially made your original query so hard to understand.

Regarding executing a script, FTP does not normally allow that. You will probably need to get access to a normal unix shell logon.

Ok then we've finally located the problem. I didn't know that there are two kinds of CHMOD command (FTP and CHMOD from shell).

Means You do suggest another approaching like access to a normal unix shell logon.
I have only one question about this; how (if there is a native C#.NET code for that - mono has some libraries that provides support for SSH protocol but i have never heard about the .NET framework that does the same)?

Thanks a lot kahuna and other

Microsoft Windows does not use SSH as a native protocol.

/n software inc - The Leading Provider of Internet Components provides an implementation.