From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 19 8:10:25 2002 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 9398737B408 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:10:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.HoundsOfHeaven.com (216-93-126-013.mdmmi.voyager.net [216.93.126.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D795043E65 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:10:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@TechServSys.com) Received: from home (william [192.168.10.2]) by home.HoundsOfHeaven.com (8.8.8/SCO5) with ESMTP id LAA09785 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:10:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "bill" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:12:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: ftp/ftpd Message-ID: <3D60D28E.30009.5631F6B@localhost> In-reply-to: <3D610154.5070105@pragma.no> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19 Aug 2002 at 16:31, Andreas Wideroe Andersen wrote: > bill wrote: > > > to be able to put pages to the freeBSD machine I need ftpd (or some variant) > > running on that machine do I not ? > > > Yes you do, normally ftpd (man ftpd) is installed by default. If not > I suggest you install proftpd from /usr/ports/ftp -> make install > clean. I think Proftpd is a great FTP server and it's highly > configurable too! > > I would also like to recommend using scp (man scp). scp is secure > copy which is sometimes nice to use if you plan on safely moving > files between different unix servers. > > /Andreas > Thanks Andreas. Unfortunately I am moving from SCO to freeBSD and afaik, SCO has no scp. -bill- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message