RE: [cobalt-users] Incoming Anonymous FTP

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:46 PM 2/23/00 -0500, you wrote:

> > I've got a site set up to allow incoming Anonymous FTP on my RaQ2.
> >
> > When I try to limit it to accept 2000 megabytes of files, it defaults
> > instead to allow 11156 Megabytes.
>
> Don't know about that, unless there's some other files or it has to do with
> the site settings for that domain.

Of course I thought of that, but 11156 is GREATER THAN 2000 <smile>.  It 
should have accepted 2000 megabytes.  Anyone from Cobalt have any ideas?

> > And when I use anonymous FTP, the incoming directory doesn't
> > allow me access.
>
> Do you mean you can't upload or can't see the upload when logged in as
> anonymous?

I mean what I said <smile>.  I can't access the directory.  When I try to 
change to the directory, I get: "550 incoming: Permission denied".

Yes, I know that's a directory permissions error and that I can fix it by 
hand. But shouldn't the RaQ2's gui web-based interface do this for me?  Any 
comments, Cobalt?

>  You can only see what's in the incoming directory when logged in
> as the site admin. It's not meant for "file sharing" in the traditional
> anonymous FTP sense.

I've NEVER seen an incoming directory that let an anonymous FTPer see what 
was in it.  People who set up anonymous FTP that way are asking to be used 
as an MP3 repository <wry grin>.

> Let me know if your anonymous FTP suddenly disappears from the GUI and has
> to be re-enabled. Happened a couple of times to one of my sites. Still don't
> know what caused it.

Never happened yet.  Did you ever check by trying to FTP in after it had 
disappeared?  Was the directory still there?

Jeff

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