From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 15 10:57:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5CAD37B402 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:57:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from SAGEONE (adsl-64-219-30-188.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [64.219.30.188]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA00440; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:57:16 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020215125714.00e34990@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:57:14 -0600 To: Scott Nolde , Malan Joubert From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: ftp dowloads via telnet downloads Cc: In-Reply-To: <20020215124114.U25531-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hmmm... ftp and telnet are two separate services and you should be able to run ftp without a telnet connection.... I assume you have these services set up via inetd...??? Are they in the /etc/inetd.conf (as uncommented lines?). At 12:44 PM 2.15.2002 -0500, Scott Nolde wrote: >Thus sayeth the previous author: > > >Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:34:11 +0200 > >From: Malan Joubert > >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >Subject: ftp dowloads via telnet downloads > > > >I have a remote FreeBSD box which I can access through telnet... > >I want to be able to download large files on it by sending it commands via > >telnet... Can this be done > >all that I can manage is to "get" the file while running ftp but then i've > >got to stay telneted or else it stops.... > > > >Any Ideas? > >Malan > > > >I highly recommend you discontinue using telnet, as OpenSSH will do what >you wish with ssh (replaces telnet) and scp (secure copy) and sftp (secure >ftp). > >With scp you can typically transfer one or more file with one command line >entry, then background it with & and redirect any output to /dev/null. > >Additionally, there's netcat and cryptcat from ports which you can use to >transfer files without necessitating ftp services. > >Scott Nolde >GPG Key 0xD869AB48 > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin =================================================== Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com "My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; ....situation excellent! ....I shall attack!" =================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message