Subject: Re: 500 'EPSV': command not understood.
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Julian Coleman <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/27/2000 15:54:42
> Anyone know how to prevent this error short of piping through grep -V
> to not display it?  I am trying to run a file transfer from a cron job
> and I would prefer not to get email every time it runs.  I tried using
> the -A arg to ftp but then I just get an EPRT error instead.

Um, put something in you ~/.netrc :

	machine ftp.remote.site
	macdef init
	passive off

or maybe :

	default
	macdef init
	passive off

?  (Remember the blank line after each machine entry and after the default
entry.)

J

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