On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Andrus <kobruleht2@xxxxxx> wrote: >> Sorry, I'm no gentoo expert. It's certainly not the first distro I'd >> recommend to someone just starting out with linux / unix. Time to >> break out the google. I also found quite a few example scripts for >> lftp with google in a few minutes. > > I must manage existing gentoo server where previous maintainer has left > company. > lftp is not found in gentoo and nobody knows how to activate it. So I must > use existing ftp. It sounds like the last guy there was no gentoo expert either. Apparently the install command is something like emerge lftp but I can't confirm that, since I'm not sitting on a gentoo box. > This issue may not realted to ftp program. > I verified multiple times that file exists and is readable. > Any ides why ftp does not find /root/my-backups/mybackup6.backup ? There Because ftp is running as a cron? Doesn't have the right permissions? Because it appeared the username and password were failing? Because ftp wasn't designed to be scriptable? Maybe a lack of EOF in the original example you posted. Could be a lot of reasons. > must be something simple. > Can /root directoy access from fpt program is disabled for some strange > reason ? What? Only root can access /root directory. Or do you mean something else? Only things that should be run by root are things that genuinely need to, and this doesn't look like one of them. > [/root/my-backups/mybackup6.backup] Looks like you're trying to write to the /root directory. Don't do that. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
