Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 04 September 2018 07:42:53 Dan Purgert wrote: > >> Dave Sherohman wrote: >> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 01:35:35PM -0000, Dan Purgert wrote: >> >> [*] Please you one last holdout using our ancient FTP service, >> >> let's move to the 21st century and use SFTP, please? >> > >> > Last week, we decommissioned an ancient server[1] and then got a >> > call two days later from an academic complaining that his web site >> > had disappeared. One of my predecessors had set him up with an >> > arrangement where he FTPed his files to this ancient server, then >> > the actual web host ran a daily cron job to scp files into >> > production. >> >> Aren't academics grand? :) >> >> > We somehow managed to convince him that the easiest solution would >> > be for him to use SFTP directly to the web server instead, and thus >> > my last FTP user fell. >> >> Well, at least he was okay with change. Many academics aren't (and >> it's a right pain to deal with them - 'son, I've had tenure since The >> War*') >> >> >> *OK, maybe not quite that long ... :) > > Depends on which war.:) I had a round with the air force at EAFB in the > early 60's.
We were flying a bombing mission to Daiquiri at 1800, coming in from the north ... (Also wasn't "The War" specifically WWI?) -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281