Hello Janis.

22 Apr 16 14:44, you wrote to me:

 JK> Hi Jeff,

 >> I guess I never paid that much attention. Is BBBS capable of
 >> providing a Fido or FTN feed via FTP? I had a recent  request for an
 >> FTP feed but haven't upto this point looked at that capability.
 >> Least not since the John Souvestre days.

 >> I know that BBBS can call out via FTP. I have written several bash
 >> scripts tha will do that. But haven't looked at BBBS  being capable
 >> of feeding downlinks via FTP. I have ProFTPd  installed but it is a
 >> little overkill for the task. Anyone  have thoughts?

 JK> See my reply to Robert that I just posted.. I use bbbs's ftp daemon to
 JK> deliver and pick up from a few nodes.

 JK> This is the command file I use for one of them:

 JK> ftp.fidonet.ca
 JK> user
 JK> 
 JK> put 1:140/3
 JK> cd ..
 JK> quit

 JK> This is nicer than say proftpd, etc. because you specify the node
 JK> number as I do above and all traffic for that node goes out, etc..  A
 JK> simple line in the [node remap] section is also used for this.  Please
 JK> see my note to Robert though for more details or search in sysop.gui
 JK> for batch ftp.

Does this work for incoming ftp sessions too? I can how it works for outgoing
as I have already written some very simular scripts to send mail out.

 JK> Take care,
 JK> Janis

 JK> --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-2

Jeff

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