--- Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> maxim wexler wrote: > > --- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> m doing things wrong<g>. > >> > >> - are you sure you're running ftpd on the > target > >> machine? > >> > > > > Well top and ps list ftp without the 'd' on the > end > > as running. And ftp starts with the ftp> prompt. > If > > that's what you mean. > > > No, the ftp> prompt is for the FTP *client*. It > needs a server to > connect to - the system doesn't know how to answer > FTP requests just > like that. ftpd, the FTP server, needs to be > running on one of the > machines aiieee!! It's not even emerged yet! This must have seemed so obvious to everybody they couldn't be bothered to reply. Well, thanks for the hand up. Hopefully this will put an end to the issue. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list