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Re: ftp client's "ls" is "!ls"

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On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 6:48 AM, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 06:34:33PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > The "ftp" client appears to be flakey, but the
> > tnftp client seems to work well, with tab-completion and other commands
> > performing as expected. (The ncftp client *almost* works, but
> > tab-completion doesn't see the blah.tgz.manifest file whereas it does see
> > the blah.tgz file, so it gives misleading info on tab-completion.)
>
> lftp is also worth a look.  If you're an experienced Unix shell user,
> lftp is almost ridiculously intuitive.  (That said, I haven't seriously
> used FTP in many years... makes me wonder what you're actually doing
> with it.)
>
>
I think I tried lftp in my experiments, and it was lacking in some minor
way. Or maybe it was that tnftp just responded more quickly, or was the
last one I tried; I don't recall now.

This "Systems Management" appliance from KACE, then bought by Dell, then
bought by Quest, is marketed as the gee-whiz solution to managing hundreds
or thousands of network-attached devices (Windows PCs, Macs, Linux PCs,
tablets, etc) from an administrative standpoint. So far, after wrestling
with it for nearly a year, I'm not impressed.

For example, there is no sftp access, only ftp. (And so far, after trying
for a week, I've been unable to get it to work as how the documentation
describes. There's no way to set the ftp user (it's built-in; can't find
any configuration for it anywhere), and the only real options for ftp are
"on/off" and "writable" or not; I've set the check-box to "writable", but
so far, it ain't. Pfft. As I said, not impressed.... And the documentation?
And the support options? As I said, not impressed.)

Makes me wish I could just curl up in my nice little Debian world and leave
the non-Debian computers flailing in the wind.


-- 
Kent West                    <")))><
Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

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ftp client's "ls" is "!ls" Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-03-24 22:50 +0100
  Re: ftp client's "ls" is "!ls" <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-25 08:10 +0100
    Re: ftp client's "ls" is "!ls" Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-03-25 23:10 +0100
      Re: ftp client's "ls" is "!ls" <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-26 11:40 +0200
        Re: ftp client's "ls" is "!ls" Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-03-27 01:40 +0200
          Re: ftp client's "ls" is "!ls" Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-03-27 13:50 +0200
            Re: ftp client's "ls" is "!ls" Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-03-27 15:20 +0200

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