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Pulse001
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How to change ftp transfer complete message.

Hello,

I am facing a peculiar request from one of my users. They want to modify the message we receive on successful transfer of files via ftp. The change required is as below : --

Present Description: 226 Transfer complete.
Required Description: 226 File receive OK.

Is it possible to change this message ? I believe this message is generated by the ftp program and hence will not be very easy to implement, but just in case anybody has come across a similar request.
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Mel Burslan
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Re: How to change ftp transfer complete message.

I do not believe you can do this short of recompiling the ftp client binary with this changed message string. And I am not even sure you can find the source code for the ftp client coming with hpux.
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Steven E. Protter
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Re: How to change ftp transfer complete message.

Shalom,

Yes you can change it. You need to start with an open source ftp package and compile it.

However that means you have to maintain the code and put in security fixes as they come out.

Is it worth it?

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James R. Ferguson
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Re: How to change ftp transfer complete message.

Hi:

Why would you want to do this? The important piece of the result is the three-digit number at the beginning of the message; here the '226'. What happens if you transfer a directory listing? I suspect that the successful response is '226'. I suggest a bit of user education.

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curt larson_1
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Re: How to change ftp transfer complete message.

there might be a possibility with the LANGUAGE settings. i.e. your LANG variable settings can change what is output by various programs. ftp is one of them. Don't know if you can change this particular one.

Look at where the LANG stuff is stored for ftp.
You'll have to get your users set there LANG variable in their shell. that would probably be 'C'. and being your changing stuff that is considered to be 'owned' by the OS manufacture, they are free to undue your changes, or make changes as they wish. Therefore, patches, upgrades, new os, etc are likely to undue your changes
Dennis Handly
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Re: How to change ftp transfer complete message.

>Is it possible to change this message?

Is there a ftp.cat that you can modify?
Pulse001
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Re: How to change ftp transfer complete message.


Thanks everybody i educated the user to utilize the three digit number 226 in her application code. Now she has made these changes and deployed the code successfully.
Dennis Handly
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Re: How to change ftp transfer complete message.

>ME: Is there a ftp.cat that you can modify?

I didn't find one.
Viktor Balogh
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Re: How to change ftp transfer complete message.

or perhaps you could write a wrapper for ftp, and just simply 'sed' the output of it. so they wouldn't notice the 'transfer complete' message, instead of it they would see the 'file receive OK' message. - OK I now, no points will be awarded for this :)
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