R P Herrold wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, James B. Byrne wrote:
tell me how I can capture and log the initial response to the ftp connection?
man expect
It is usually straightforward to capture a transcript of a session, and then abstract away the needed prompts and responses (The ORA 'Exploring Expect' by Don Libes should be read and studied by every sysadmin wanting to be more than a bike-shed painter -- I use such problems to train PFY on their road to BOFH'hood)
As I recall FTP has some parts in its protocol, as does telnet (another ancient protocol) that are sent to varying file handles, and with varying 'echo' to console stty options, in setting up connection options
-- Russ herrold
There is also script autoexpext? that creates a script based on user commands (you do it once manually and commands are saved). The use logging facility of expect to log what you need.
Ljubomir