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. > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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