Re: FTP_delete

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Helge,

Unless I'm very confused, sending DELE followed by the filename is the 
correct FTP command to delete a file.   The message '500 
sched_20080505152223.txt not delete' is not coming from FTPAPI, it's 
coming from the FTP server.  Any time you see a message prefixed by a 
3-digit number, it's coming from the server (FTPAPI merely receives it 
and relays it to you.)

You say that this works with all other FTP clients aside from FTPAPI. 
Okay, if that's the case, please go into IBM's FTP client (the 'FTP' 
command in i5/OS).  Type 'debug 1' into the IBM client, and then run 
your delete command.  You should see something like this:

debug 1
DEBUG is on. DEBUG value is 1.

del sched_20080505152223.txt
 >>> DELE sched_20080505152223.txt
250 DELE command successful.

The part after the >>> is what the FTP client (IBM's client in this 
case) is sending to the FTP server.  Assuming that FTPAPI is doing 
something wrong you should see a difference from what the IBM clientis 
doing, and what FTPAPI is doing.  (from your log output, it looks like 
FTPAPI is working properly, but...  if every other FTP client works, it 
must be FTPAPI, right?)

Anyway, if you can tell me what's different from the IBM one and what 
you see in your job log with FTPAPI, perhaps I can fix the problem!

If they are sending the same thing, then I would suspect that the 
problem is in the server.  (Perhaps you're sending the FTP_Delete() too 
quickly, and the server hasn't had time to close it's files yet. 
Personally, I'd consider that a bug in the server.)  But, that's just a 
wild guess. I don't know for sure what the problem is -- it'd be nice if 
the FTP server gave us a more useful message than simply saying 'not 
deleted'!!


Helge Bichel wrote:
> 	[2]  > DELE sched_20080505162233.txt                            
> 	     500 sched_20080505162233.txt not deleted.  
> Accessing the ftp server via any ftp client allows
> deleting the file on the server, so it's not 
> missing authority causing the 
> 	500 sched_20080505162233.txt not deleted. 

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