MS Access file. But in a secured folder. I don't understand why I can use SmartFTP to access the folder, but not command line ftp.
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) wget and ftp? At 12:38 PM 6/18/03, you wrote: > >On Saturday 14 June 2003 15:56, Shawn wrote: > >> Hi ya. > >> > >> I've just put together a script file that will call wget to backup one of > >> the websites I manage, and built a cron job to run this every night. The > >> problem I'm having is in accessing a specific ftp folder. > >> > >> The host the site is with has assigned our user account a default > >> directory, so when I log in my path is something like > >> "ftp.mysite.com/html". There is a database file that is one level above > >> this "ftp.mysite.com/database" (assuming I got the path right). The > >> datbase folder has restricted access so that web users cannot download the > >> database file, or even see the folder. When I use a tool like SmartFTP, I > >> can access both folders without having to login. However, when I open up a > >> command line ftp session on my linux box, I cannot connect to the database > >> folder - I get permission denied, even though I'm logged in with the > >> correct user account. Any thoughts on this? > >> Dumb question: What type of database file we are talking about? A Flat file, MySQL, PostgreSQL. -- Mark Lane, CET mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hard Data Ltd. http://www.harddata.com T: 01-780-456-9771 F: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada, T5X 1Y3 --> Ask me about our Excellent 1U Systems! <--
