From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 4 17:50:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA25929 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 17:50:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mistery.mcafee.com (jimd@mistery.mcafee.com [192.187.128.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA25917 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 17:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jimd@localhost) by mistery.mcafee.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA00469; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 17:33:05 -0700 From: Jim Dennis Message-Id: <201006050033.RAA00469@mistery.mcafee.com> Subject: Re: Stupid ftpd question To: huck@mispwoso.nosc.mil (Craig Huckabee) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 110 17:33:05 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606042334.TAA03285@mispwoso.nosc.mil> from "Craig Huckabee" at Jun 4, 96 07:34:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > How can I set up my FreeBSD anonymous ftp server so that it > defaults to transfer type 'binary' instead of 'ascii'? I'm using > wu-ftpd out of the ports collection on a 2.1-RELEASE machine. > Since everything I will have online will be images (CAD files) > I want to go ahead and default transfer type to 'binary'. That's not a stupid question at all. That answer....on the other hand.... As far as I know the transfer type is purely a client side configuration matter. In other words -- I doubt that you can (via ftp). (I wouldn't mind being proven wrong on this. However I'm sure that ftp.cdrom.com and the maintainers of simtel, cica, garbo, and other popular ftp sites would have done this long, long, long ago -- if they could). Jim Dennis, System Administrator, McAfee Associates