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Date:      Mon, 17 May 1999 12:48:28 -0400
From:      "James A. Mutter" <jm7996@devrycols.edu>
To:        youlgok@ibm.net, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ftp
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19990517124828.007a6bf0@devrycols.edu>
In-Reply-To: <374045E6.525C4A0C@ibm.net>

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The error message is telling you what's wrong.  You don't have permission
to write the file "foo.bar" on your side.

Are you trying to ftp the file to anyplace but your home directory?  
If you're not logged in as root this is most likely the cause of your problem.



At 12:37 PM 5/17/99 -0400, youlgok@ibm.net wrote:
>I am having a problem downloading a file from ftp.freebsd.org.  When I
>try to 'get  foo.bar, it says
>
>'local: foo.bar   remote foo.bar
>ftp: local: foo.bar: Permission denied'
>
>The directory is
>'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/*.*-stable/packages/*'
>
>I don't know what I did wrong.  Please help me.
>
>
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