"Tom Parsons" <sconews@tegan.com> wrote in message
news:20050826104853.22912@tegan.com...
> Ronald J Marchand enscribed:
> | > | Openserver 5.0,6
> | > |
> | > | The user account for ftp is gone. How is it reinstated?
> | > | Account manager complains about user ids below 200!
> | >
> | > Gone or never added?
> | >
> | > A ftp user is not installed by default in 5.0.5
> |
> | 5.0.6, and it was there. Unfortunately, the disk motor is dying now
> | compounding the problem.
>
> I'm not understanding the revelance.
>
> Are you wanting to transfer the files?
>
> The ftp user doesn't prevent ftp, its primary use is for anonymous ftp.
>
> If you are trying to get the files off quickly, rsync is more efficient.
>
I didn't detail the problem. I have a sick machine on my hands (hard drive
drops out) and I wanted to ftp a tarball of user data to another machine.
This one will not accept an FTP connection and the syslog file contains info
that the ftp user is not there. And it isn't. I didn't know how to
reinstate it either.

However, I have never used rsync and I will now read the man page.

Thanks much for your input.
Ron