From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 20 15:27:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 559D716A420 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:27:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFA1B43D68 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:27:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66BBF5CB6; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:27:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03058-10; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:27:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-251-207.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.251.207]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8605D5CB3; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:27:55 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43F9DFFD.6040506@mac.com> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:27:57 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tech.junk@verizon.net References: <43F9D435.8030804@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <43F9D435.8030804@verizon.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:27:57 -0000 Sean wrote: > I have my bsd system setup to allow ftp. > > However when I try to ftp a directory and the contents from another > system it basically uses the directory as a file name and all contents > in that directory are ignored. > > I am guessing that I am doing something wrong when I type to get the > directory and files, and not a system setup. > > Any advice? FTP isn't really designed for recursive retrieval of a hierarchy of files, although you can use an FTP mirror script from ports if need be. rsync is a much better solution to the problem. -- -Chuck