Hello,
On Tue, 08 Aug 2017, Walter Dnes wrote:
>> Try a:
>>
>> ftp> cd incoming
>
> Thank you, that was it. I just pushed over a file from a Gentoo
>machine to my desktop for a test. The OS/2 Warp ftp client still
>doesn't work, but that's probably a VM networking issue. There are
>other ways of getting data from inside the VM to the host machine, then
>I can ftp from there.
>
> Annoying "feature"... if I set "anon_root=/home/ftp/incoming/", then
>vsftpd refuses to run, complaining about a writable chroot directory.
Yeah, it's all about the writeable root (of the chroot). Whichever
path that is. Writeable chroot-root is just a "no-no" ;) And having
those rights on /incoming is quite sane...
>So I have to do an anonymous login, starting of in /home/ftp/ and then
>manually "cd incoming".
Or just add the target-dir at the end of the 'put foo /incoming/'.
And have a look at your client configuration ... For the plain
net-ftp/ftp client, it's ~/.netrc (see 'man 5 netrc'). Uhhm, that's
not quite intuitive to use... So here's a working example:
==== ~/.netrc ====
machine localhost
login anonymous password "test@localhost"
macdef init
pwd
cd /incoming
pwd
default login anonymous password "invalid@invalid.invalid"
====
That way, you'd be auto-logged-in and auto-chdired to incoming on
localhost. Ain't that nice? You could add more commands to that
init-macro... Like a 'put foo' ;) Add a host-alias to your /etc/hosts
use that for a 'machine foo' directive in your .netrc and *tada* all
can be automated ;) That's Unix: a large box of pieces that can all
be combined creatively - or less so.
The 'pwd' are just for debugging (and the macro-definition (here the
special init macro) ends at the empty line). That should get you
started :)
Anyway, TUI/GUI clients like ncftp and gftp often have similar
features... Or even read ~/.netrc.
HTH,
-dnh, lovin' it to know the basics, learned in the 90ies, still valid
today ...
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