login($username,$password,$become)
Logs in a user. Returns 0 on failure. If $username is 'anonymous' then it will try to login as 'ftp'
with no password. If $become is defined then it will try to change ownership of the process to the
uid/gid of the logged in user. BEWARE of the consequences of using $become. login() also sets the uid,
gid, home, gids, home_path, and chdir to the users'.
cwd
Gets or sets the current directory, assumes / if blank. This is used in conjunction with the root_path
for file operations. No actual change directory takes place.
root_path($path)
Get or set the root path. All file paths are off this and cwd For example:
$self->root_path('/home/ftp');
$self->cwd('/test');
$self->size('testfile.txt');
The size command would get the size for file /home/ftp/test/testfile.txt not /test/testfile.txt
chmod($mode,$file)
chmod's a file.
modtime($file)
Gets the modification time of a file in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format.
size($file)
Gets the size of a file in bytes.
delete($file)
Deletes a file, returns 1 or 0 on success or failure.
chdir($dir)
Changes the cwd to a new path from root_path. Returns undef on failure or the new path on success.
mkdir($dir,$mode)
Creats a directory with $mode (defaults to 0755) and chown()'s the directory with the uid and gid. The
return value is from mkdir().
rmdir($dir)
Deletes a directory or file if -d test fails. Returns 1 on success or 0 on failure.
list($dir)
Returns an array of the files in a directory.
list_details($dir)
Returns an array of the files in ls format.
stat($file)
Does a normal stat() on a file or directory
test($test,$file)
Perform a perl type test on a file and returns the results.
For example to perform a -d on a directory.
$self->test('d','/testdir');
See filetests in perlfunc (commandline: perldoc perlfunc)
open_read($file,[params])
Opens a file with IO::File. Params are passed to open() of IO::File. It returns the file handle on
success or undef on failure. This could be technically be used for any sort of open operation. See
IO::File's open method.
close_read($fh)
Performs a $fh->close()open_write($fh,$append)
Performs an $fh->open(">$file") or $fh->open(">>$file") if $append is defined. Returns the filehandle on
success or undef on failure.
close_write($fh)
Performs a $fh->close()seek($fh,$pos,$wence)
Performs a $fh->seek($pos, $wence). See IO::Seekable.
utime($atime,$mtime,@files)
Performs a utime() on the file(s). It changes the access time and mod time of those files.