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
Reply to: