On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:24:20PM -0800, Tom HARROLD enlightened us
thusly
> Absolutely! It is an UNIX based system. It's nice for a change. The
> grand daddy of all OS I like to say. ;-) Oh by the way, in my last
> message I wrote, one of the commands was incorrect. Not "apr", it
> should be "arp".
>
> Recently, I have been reading the on-line "man" pages and found
> information on most of the commands but except for "ftpd" and a few
> others at this time I can't think of them to mention them. Anyways, I
> need some guide to show me how to setup and configure to make it work.
> Like connecting to another system. So, I can transfer and backup the
> system via Ethernet network.
>
> Thanks Declan, for your reply... [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
ftpd should be an ftp daemon, that is a program you run to allow others
to ftp into your box. The reason you are not finding man pages is that
the 'original' ftpd has fallen into disuse (Part of the inetutils
package I _think_) but there are piles of them (ncftpd, wu-ftpd). Look
for either a directory called .*ftp or .*ftpd in /root, or much more
likely, some file in /etc.
most programs should respond to <program> --help with a terse list of
options. Some interesting tricks:
uname -a should give you system information. I get
Linux genius.chateau.dec 2.4.22 #2 Mon Dec 8 17:54:37 GMT 2003 i686
unknown
That is
Linux system;
genius.chateau.dec is the fully qualified name
2.4.22 is kernel version
Date, time
i686= processor type, Unknown means it didn't cop an Athlon :-/.
What does yours say?
The config files should be in /etc/ or the user's directory (conceivably
a few in other places) and the rest depends on your flavour of unix.
There are some unix users here. Some guys (Like Jaap) run it and we can
probably sort you out.
If it boots, try 'ps -e' which will tell us what was started on bootup,
and what you are trying to do. We can all have a laugh at you then, but
we might also be able to help :).
--
With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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