[ale] i just don't "get" it yet

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

ChangingLINKS.com writes:
 > Okay. My user account has permission to write to /data (I use /data all day 
 > everyday). I have even tried created a file (using an editor) called 
 > /data/CLbackup.tgz to try to trick ftp into trasferring the file.
 > The commands below are what I entered. You can see the variations on a theme 
 > to try to get it to work. I am thinking /data is is not a subdirectory of 
 > anything, moreover, when I omit "/data" to get the file to copy to 
 > /home/user, it still doesn't work. The issue does not seem to be related to 
 > /data.  TIA  for your  help.

Can you "lcd /data"?  lcd is "local cd".  Or try running ftp from the
/data dir.

--Michael

 > 
 > 
 > ftp> ls
 > 227 Entering Passive Mode (209,211,232,3,79,56)
 > 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for directory listing.
 > total 7892
 > -rw-rw-r--   1 834      835        949774 Apr 16 13:03 CLbackup.tgz
 > -rw-rw-r--   1 834      835       3070111 Apr 16 13:03 dbbackup.txt
 > drwxr-xr-x   7 834      835          1024 Apr 16 13:04 public_html
 > 226 Transfer complete.
 > ftp> get /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz /data
 > local: /data remote: /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz
 > local: /data: No such file or directory
 > ftp> get /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz tb1200:/data
 > local: tb1200:/data remote: /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz
 > local: tb1200:/data: No such file or directory
 > ftp> get /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz 
 > local: ./home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz remote: /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz
 > local: ./home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz: No such file or directory
 > ftp> get /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz /data
 > local: /data remote: /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz
 > local: /data: No such file or directory
 > ftp> get /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz /data/
 > local: /data/ remote: /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz
 > local: /data/: No such file or directory
 > ftp> 
 > 
 > -- 
 > Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
 > Drew
 > http://www.ChangingLINKS.com
 > 
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