From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 12 06:21:55 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0A72106564A for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:21:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave@g8kbv.demon.co.uk) Received: from anchor-msapost-3.mail.demon.net (anchor-msapost-3.mail.demon.net [195.173.77.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 838C98FC08 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:21:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [83.218.133.185] (helo=[192.168.1.67]) by anchor-post-3.mail.demon.net with esmtpsa (AUTH g8kbv) (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.69) id 1SICyZ-0006Kl-o3 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:53:47 +0000 From: "Dave B" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:53:36 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4F866DE0.14587.F46D1@dave.g8kbv.demon.co.uk> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <201204111454.54957.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> References: <4F857029.25481.F2968A@dave.g8kbv.demon.co.uk>, <201204111454.54957.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.62) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Subject: Re: FTP oddness, over SSH session. 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: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:21:55 -0000 On 11 Apr 2012 at 14:54, Mike Clarke wrote: > On Wednesday 11 April 2012, Dave B wrote: > > > I just found however, that though I can reliably send a file to the > > FTP server and it get's saved just fine, that's not true when > > connecting this way using a SSH tunnel. > > Would it not be simpler just to use sftp directly rather than > tunnelling ftp through ssh? > > -- > Mike Clarke Hi, ordinarily perhaps yes, if I could only figure out how to set it up on the FreeBSD box. As always, the "Manuals" though no doubt correct and complete as a "reference", are no good to people who don't already know "How To" do it. Originally, the FTP was purely for other machines at home to periodicaly dump data for some pages of the small website it also hosts. There was (is) no need for SFTP for that, as all the machines are in the same room at home. Thanks for the reply. Dave B. -- Help for Hero's European Rally 2012 participant. Please help by visiting:- http://www.bmycharity.com/TeamSnowball For any/all donations, all 100% goes to H4H.