Excuse my naivity Nick but how exactly do you need shell access to access an ftp server?? I assume you mean only for rsync/unison connections right??
rsync is advanced "ftp" it can upload using ssh (securely) or clear and it only updates the differences of the files instead of the whole lot it also has CVS support (mmmmm) and it is not on port 21 (port 873)
(this is exactly what I want by the way) the site is 5100 kb could take a while upload all the photos etc.
just having a play with the upload script suggested by David Stephen
tim
I ask becuase if you were doing a straight ftp
connection, wouldn't it look just the same to the server as a graphical client based connection??
BTW, how does an inbound unison connection look to an ftp server. And technically speaking, isn't an rsync connection to an ftp server impossible, since the connection must be made to an rsync server?? Or is rsync a subset of the ftp protocol?? I was of the understanding this was not the case, thus no graphical ftp client supports rsync (sadly).
Cheers
Jason
Nick Rout wrote:
of course the original poster (whoever that was) may not have shell access to the ftp server, and may not be able to run rsync/unison there.
