On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:45:39PM -0500, Jon Roed wrote: > i have been fooling around with my webcam trying to get it too work. I > managed to get the webcam command to work (sort of) now it starts, but i get > no picture, and an error that says: > > ftp: lost connection > ftp: connect failed, sleeping 5 sec > ftp: lost connection > ftp: connect failed, sleeping 10 sec > ftp: lost connection > ftp: connect failed, sleeping 20 sec > > and it just keeps doing that. I think it's because my ftp port (port 21) is > closed. How do i open it ? or at least allow this traffic After reading the description for the package webcam I guess that webcam tries to upload to a default ftp server which might be localhost. So you can configure webcam to use a real server for the upload or use vgrabbj to capture a picture and then use a few scripts and lftp to upload via ftps to a remote ftp server.
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