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lftp problems ...



Hi all, getting to grips with lftp, I dont seem to be able to delete any directories on my ntl ftp site, In particular I want to delete directories spare & spare2 ...

lftp dave.selby@upload.ntlworld.com:/> ls
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  5 12:48 faq
drwxr-xr-x   2 ntlworld upload       4096 May  5 07:00 java
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  5 07:00 jpegs
drwxr-xr-x   6 ntlworld upload       4096 May  6 18:04 pngs
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  4 17:56 spare
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  4 17:56 spare2
lftp dave.selby@upload.ntlworld.com:/>
lftp dave.selby@upload.ntlworld.com:/> cd spare
cd ok, cwd=/spare
lftp dave.selby@upload.ntlworld.com:/spare> ls -al
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  4 17:56 .
drwxr-xr-x   9 ntlworld upload       4096 May  6 18:09 ..
lftp dave.selby@upload.ntlworld.com:/spare> cd ..
cd ok, cwd=/
lftp dave.selby@upload.ntlworld.com:/> ls
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  5 12:48 faq
drwxr-xr-x   2 ntlworld upload       4096 May  5 07:00 java
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  5 07:00 jpegs
drwxr-xr-x   6 ntlworld upload       4096 May  6 18:04 pngs
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  4 17:56 spare
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  4 17:56 spare2
lftp dave.selby@upload.ntlworld.com:/> rmdir spare
rmdir: Access failed: 550 spare: File exists
lftp dave.selby@upload.ntlworld.com:/>

As far as I can see there is no file in spare, or spare2 come to that. Interestingly I can rmdir directories I create !

lftp dave.selby@upload.ntlworld.com:/> ls
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  5 12:48 faq
drwxr-xr-x   2 ntlworld upload       4096 May  5 07:00 java
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  5 07:00 jpegs
drwxr-xr-x   6 ntlworld upload       4096 May  6 18:04 pngs
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  4 17:56 spare
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  4 17:56 spare2
lftp dave.selby@upload.ntlworld.com:/> mkdir hopefull
mkdir ok, `hopefull' created
lftp dave.selby@upload.ntlworld.com:/> ls
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  5 12:48 faq
drwxr-xr-x   2 ntlworld upload       4096 May  6 18:17 hopefull
drwxr-xr-x   2 ntlworld upload       4096 May  5 07:00 java
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  5 07:00 jpegs
drwxr-xr-x   6 ntlworld upload       4096 May  6 18:04 pngs
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  4 17:56 spare
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  4 17:56 spare2
lftp dave.selby@upload.ntlworld.com:/> rmdir hopefull
rmdir ok, `hopefull' removed
lftp dave.selby@upload.ntlworld.com:/> ls
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  5 12:48 faq
drwxr-xr-x   2 ntlworld upload       4096 May  5 07:00 java
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  5 07:00 jpegs
drwxr-xr-x   6 ntlworld upload       4096 May  6 18:04 pngs
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  4 17:56 spare
drwxr-xr-x   3 ntlworld upload       4096 May  4 17:56 spare2
lftp dave.selby@upload.ntlworld.com:/>

Any ideas ?

PS to upload a complete site from local to server, would I be right to use mput * ?

Dave



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