On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:14 AM, skogzort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > Ib m trying to copy all the contents of "/root/var/namedb from a remote > OpenBSD3.8 DNS server to my local PC. I am using WinSCP for file transfer. I > have found that I am unable to download some of the directories: > > /root/var/named/etc > /root/var/named/log > /root/var/named/slave > > I do not know OpenBSD or Unix but I can use Putty to login to the console as a > member of the wheel group then I can type su b to execute commands as root.
Either log in as root and tarball the directory, or log in as root through scp and pull it in. > I was told that I should copy the etc, log, and slave directories to my local > user directory, then I would be allowed to download them using WinSCP. > > I do not know the commands to copy a whole directory. Can anyone help? I want > to make sure that when the copies end up in my home directory, they no longer > have b whatever restrictions" are keeping me from downloading them from where > the originals are at now. man cp(1)
