[Wolves] Debian FTP failure

Peter Cannon peter at cannon-linux.co.uk
Fri Mar 4 18:53:11 GMT 2005


On Friday 04 March 2005 18:40, Stuart Langridge wrote:
> Peter Cannon wrote:
> > On Friday 04 March 2005 16:47, Alan Pope wrote:
> >>Don't use FTP, it's deprecated. Use scp instead.
> >
> > Here a good one, wget works I have a feeling all the bits for FTP are not
> > installed.
>
> wget works because it uses passive FTP by default. Try passing "passive"
> as a command to your FTP client. Google for it to find out why this
> helps, of course...

Sorted now, thanks for all the help.


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