I came across this really useful functionality while idly browsing in Freshmeat. I had not seen it before, so I thought I'd share it.
Curlftpfs (http://curlftpfs.sourceforge.net/) allows you to mount an ftp site on a directory on your system, and then use it as if it were filestore. This is very useful, if like me, your ISP provides an ftp interface to your web pages. I can now type: mkdir web-site curlftpfs -o user=username:password ftp.isp.com web-site and then just copy/edit the pages that I want. After which, a simple: umount web-site drops the connection. Curlftpfs depends on FUSE (and libcurl, of course - from BLFS), for which you need both a userland library: libfuse, and a kernel module - however, I found it better to rebuild the kernel with FUSE switched on (2.6 kernels have it as CONFIG_FUSE_FS, Filesystem in Userspace support). http://fuse.sourceforge.net. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
