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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 2004 07:23:36 -0600
From:      Joshua Lokken <joshua.lokken@gmail.com>
To:        Justin Gruenberg <justin.gruenberg@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FTP
Message-ID:  <bc5b63850411300523418e3132@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <96cd751f0411300505279e05e8@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20041130125253.78160.qmail@web41004.mail.yahoo.com> <96cd751f0411300505279e05e8@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:05:10 +0000, Justin Gruenberg
<justin.gruenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 04:52:53 -0800 (PST), j p <jayncali61@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > how do i FTP freebsd? do i need some other software? i need step by step. is there some other site i can just download it?
> 
> Unless you need real specific FTP control, just use the included FTP program.
> 
> You're going to need to enable inetd [1] and then uncomment the line
> for ftpd in /etc/rc.conf and then restart inetd with this command
> 

If the OP is attempting to download FreeBSD, does he really need ftpd or inetd?
If so, why?

# ftp -a ftp://ftp.freebsd.org

should do the job just fine, unless I'm missing the point altogether.

-- 
Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate



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