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

[ChangingLINKS.com]

How  to I ssh in?  I am not the same user on my local machine as I am on the 
server. . . .

Drew

On Tuesday 16 April 2002 20:59, hirsch at zapmedia.com wrote:
> ChangingLINKS.com writes:
>  > Okay, I was able to get the file. The problem was that I was telnetting
>  > in, and then typing "ftp" at the telnet prompt. I guess that ftp thought
>  > I was at server. The solution was to exit the telnet connection, THEN
>  > type ftp and it works every time based solely on the "get" command.
>
> The reason it didn't work and gave the error it gave is that you were
> ftping from the remote server to the remote server.  When you tried to
> copy the file to /data it tried to copy to /data *on*the*server* and I
> bet the server doesn't have a /data directory.
>
>  > This "ftp remote" that you mentioned may be a solution to that problem,
>  > where I can ftp _while_ still in telnet. Really I should  be using ssh,
>  > and scp (assuming ssh can do the mySQL dump and tarring that telnet
>  > does).
>  >
>  > Thank you all for your  help on this.  Now in a "but wait, it gets
>  > worse" fashion: Is there anyway to make this a .sh script that I can
>  > click on? How does the sh script know to wait for the file to get tarred
>  > and transfered before deleteing the file (there is a time delay)?
>
> This would be a good reason to switch to ssh/scp (or sftp) instead of
> telnet/ftp.  It is easy to do with ssh/scp.
>
> Glad you figured it out!
>
> --Michael
>
>  > Drew
>  >
>  > On Tuesday 16 April 2002 17:08, hirsch at zapmedia.com wrote:
>  > > 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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Drew
http://www.ChangingLINKS.com

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