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

[Geoffrey]

ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> How  to I ssh in?  I am not the same user on my local machine as I am on the 
> server. . . .

man ssh says....

  ssh [-l login_name] hostname .....

> 
> 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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