On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 05:26:09PM -0500, Wayne wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Matt Herzog <m...@blisses.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:57:57PM +0200, Sander Sweers wrote: > > > Please reply to the list. > > > > > > 2009/7/20 Matt Herzog <m...@blisses.org>: > > > > Yeah. I have no idea if I am able to do this. The jail makes it > > ambiguous. > > > > > > There is no difference, the jail just moves the root directory as seen > > > by the client. > > > > > > Did you do as suggested earlier to use listdir()? This will tell you > > > how paramiko sees the server. > > > > Yeah, I managed to get that to work like so: > > > > if __name__ == "__main__": > > t = paramiko.Transport((hostname, port)) > > t.connect(username=username, password=password) > > sftp = paramiko.SFTPClient.from_transport(t) > > print sftp.listdir() > > t.close() > > > > It displays the contents of the dir no problem. > > > Is the file present in the dir? What is it listed as? Is it just > 07232009.tab (or similar) or is it /home/user/jail/07232009.tab? That may > make a difference.
Yes, the file 20090720.tab (today's date dot tab) is present in the dir listing. The dir contents are printed out in a comma delimited list from left to right that wraps several times. There are probably 30 subdirs and a dozen files in that dir. If you use the sftp cli binary and type, 'pwd' it tells you, '/'. > > > > > > > > > > > > I get the feeling you are in on over your head on this. > > > > Yes, and I have a deadline. > > > > > Maybe you need > > > to read the paramiko docs and play around in idle or other interactive > > > python interpreter. The SFTPClient has all the basic commands any ssh > > > client has (listdir, chdir etc). See [1]. > > > > I should not need to chdir, right? In fact, the server's policy forbids it. > > Perhaps I need to chdir on the local host? > > > That shouldn't make a difference as far as getting the file is concerned - > unless you're trying to put it in a file on your computer that doesn't > exist! I'm trying to put a file in a dir called /tmp/testor. The user the script runs as owns the dir. > > I'd really recommend playing around in the interpreter - especially if you > have ipython. I have ipython. I like ipython. I just don't get enough opportunities to do python scripting. > > Good luck, HTH, > Wayne -- I fear you speak upon the rack, Where men enforced do speak anything. - William Shakespeare _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
