Re: [cobalt-developers] ftp time out setting

[Ariel Manzur <punto@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:03 28/06/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>>Hi, i had a probelm trying to do what you want.
>>In proftpd.conf under each virtual host i have i put:
>>    TimeoutNoTransfer 900
>
>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).

you could upload the files as admin, and then on telnet (as root) type
something like "cat ~admin/file>/etc/file", that will overwrite the file
(you should keep a backup of the original file).
Or you could use "pico" instead of "vi".

Bye..

Ariel.