Options: 1) set up automatic key auth with ssh-agent (no relation): http://www.cvrti.utah.edu/~dustman/no-more-pw-ssh/
2) netcat to pipe data straight to the file: http://netcat.sourceforge.net/ On Mar 26, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Robert Citek wrote: > > How can I server a large file (2+ GB) over a local network using > Knoppix 4.0.2CD? > > I've got an image of a Debian partition that's about 3.1 GB. Using > Knoppix I'd like to serve it up over the local network without > requiring a username and password. In that way a simple fetch tool > like wget can retrieve the file and send it to stdout. So far I have > not come up with an ideal solution: > > - webserver: Apache 1.3 doesn't support large files > > - tftp: can't seem to get this to work. Can't find the logs to see > what's wrong. > $ cat /var/lib/tftpboot/foo.txt > hello > > $ tftp 192.168.0.202 > tftp> status > Connected to 192.168.0.202. > Mode: netascii Verbose: off Tracing: off > Rexmt-interval: 5 seconds, Max-timeout: 25 seconds > tftp> get foo.txt bar.txt > Transfer timed out. > > > - ftp: can't seem to get this to work, either. Can't find the logs > to see what's wrong. > $ nmap -p 21 192.168.0.202 | grep ftp > 21/tcp open ftp > > $ ncftp -u knoppix -p 123456 192.168.0.202 > NcFTP 3.1.7 (Jan 07, 2004) by Mike Gleason (http://www.NcFTP.com/ > contact/). > Remote host has closed the connection. > Sleeping 15 seconds... > > - ssh: works, but requires a username and password, i.e is not easily > scriptable. > > Any ideas of a way to serve up a file (read-only is fine) to multiple > clients are gladly accepted. Also, any clues as to why tftp and ftp > aren't working also gladly accepted. > > Regards, > - Robert > http://www.cwelug.org/downloads > Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS > for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.cwelug.org/ > http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ > http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ > ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
