\_ I've read the man pages for FTP, but it just doesn't seem that you can
\_ pass it username, password, and get commands and make it all work.
\_ Anyone have any idea or suggestions?

1) cron a perl script that uses Net::FTP
2) you could probably do something like

ftp -ni 127.1 < my_ftp_command_script

YMMV on those parameters.

David