Re: [cobalt-developers] ftp time out setting

[All of us here <jale@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>> I tried to modify this file but I kept getting permission errors - but I'm
>> trying to ftp it to my windows machine and back (haven't figured out vi as
>> yet, I've only used it for 6 or 7 years).

>The file you are trying to FTP is probably owned by root.  You can't 
>read/write a
>root-owned file via FTP.  Via telnet or SSH login as admin, su to root (su 
>-), and
>then edit the file or directly or save it with a new name, change the owner 
>to admin,
>FTP it to your external machine, edit it, FTP it back and then rename it
to its
>original name and change the owner back to root.  That's a lot of extra 
>steps so get
>comfortable editing on your server directly using pine (what I like), joe, 
>emac, vi
>or some other editor that may or may not be on your server.
>
>Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}

Steven, thanks for the assistance - that was MUCH easier than trying to
figure out vi. The thing that through me off was admin vs. root. When you
mentioned the su root, I realized that admin was not the same. I ftp'd the
file, fixed it, ftp'd it back.

As another post said, I set the timeout for each host to 900, it supports
only up to 600.

One thing I do like about my method of not vi'ing files and doing the extra
steps of ftp and su, etc., is that I have a nice copy of the config files
on my local server which gets backed up more often than my RAQ server :)

Thanks again,
Danny