Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-05-15 Thread lee
Alan McKinnon writes: > On 03/05/2017 22:04, lee wrote: >> Alan McKinnon writes: >> >>> On 30/04/2017 03:11, lee wrote: "Poison BL." writes: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 3:24 PM, lee wrote: > >> Mick writes: >> >>> On Tuesday 25 Apr 2017 16:45:37 Alan McKinnon wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 03/05/2017 22:04, lee wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > >> On 30/04/2017 03:11, lee wrote: >>> "Poison BL." writes: >>> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 3:24 PM, lee wrote: > Mick writes: > >> On Tuesday 25 Apr 2017 16:45:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 25/04/2017 16:29, lee

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-05-13 Thread lee
Alan McKinnon writes: > On 30/04/2017 03:11, lee wrote: >> "Poison BL." writes: >> >>> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 3:24 PM, lee wrote: >>> Mick writes: > On Tuesday 25 Apr 2017 16:45:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 25/04/2017 16:29, lee wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> since the

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-05-13 Thread lee
"Poison BL." writes: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 9:11 PM, lee wrote: >> >> "Poison BL." writes: >> > Half petabyte datasets aren't really something I'd personally *ever* > trust >> > ftp with in the first place. >> >> Why not? (12GB are nowhere close to half a petabyte ...) > > Ah... I completel

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-05-13 Thread lee
"Walter Dnes" writes: >> transferring large amounts of data and automatization in processing at >> least some of it, without involving a 3rd party >> >> "Large amounts" can be "small" like 100MB --- or over 50k files in 12GB, >> or even more. The mirror feature of lftp is extremely useful for s

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-05-13 Thread lee
Nils Freydank writes: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2017 19:04:06 +0200 Andrew Savchenko wrote: >> [...] >> I fail to see why FTP needs to be replaced: it works, it is >> supported, it is secure when used with care, it is damn fast. > > I’ll just drop the somewhat popular rant “FTP must die“[1] and a follow-u

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-05-02 Thread Mick
On Monday 01 May 2017 22:36:00 Nils Freydank wrote: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2017 19:04:06 +0200 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > > [...] > > I fail to see why FTP needs to be replaced: it works, it is > > supported, it is secure when used with care, it is damn fast. > > I’ll just drop the somewhat popular rant

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-05-01 Thread Nils Freydank
On Sat, 30 Apr 2017 19:04:06 +0200 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > [...] > I fail to see why FTP needs to be replaced: it works, it is > supported, it is secure when used with care, it is damn fast. I’ll just drop the somewhat popular rant “FTP must die“[1] and a follow-up discussion about it[2]. IMHO t

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-30 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:29:18 +0100 lee wrote: > > Hi, > > since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement > which is at least as good as FTP? I fail to see why FTP needs to be replaced: it works, it is supported, it is secure when used with care, it is damn fast. Best regard

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-29 Thread Poison BL.
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 9:11 PM, lee wrote: > > "Poison BL." writes: > > Half petabyte datasets aren't really something I'd personally *ever* trust > > ftp with in the first place. > > Why not? (12GB are nowhere close to half a petabyte ...) Ah... I completely misread that "or over 50k files in

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 30/04/2017 03:11, lee wrote: > "Poison BL." writes: > >> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 3:24 PM, lee wrote: >> >>> Mick writes: >>> On Tuesday 25 Apr 2017 16:45:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 25/04/2017 16:29, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> since the usage of FTP seems to be declining,

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-29 Thread Walter Dnes
> transferring large amounts of data and automatization in processing at > least some of it, without involving a 3rd party > > "Large amounts" can be "small" like 100MB --- or over 50k files in 12GB, > or even more. The mirror feature of lftp is extremely useful for such > things. > > I wouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-29 Thread lee
"Poison BL." writes: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 3:24 PM, lee wrote: > >> Mick writes: >> >> > On Tuesday 25 Apr 2017 16:45:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> On 25/04/2017 16:29, lee wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> >> > >> >> > since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement >> >> > which i

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-29 Thread Poison BL.
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 3:24 PM, lee wrote: > Mick writes: > > > On Tuesday 25 Apr 2017 16:45:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 25/04/2017 16:29, lee wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement > >> > which is at least as good as FTP? > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-29 Thread lee
"Poison BL." writes: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:29 AM, lee wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement >> which is at least as good as FTP? >> >> I'm aware that there's webdav, but that's very awkward to use and >> missing features. >> >> >> --

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-29 Thread lee
Alan McKinnon writes: > On 25/04/2017 16:29, lee wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement >> which is at least as good as FTP? >> >> I'm aware that there's webdav, but that's very awkward to use and >> missing features. >> >> > > Why not stic

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-29 Thread lee
Danny YUE writes: > On 2017-04-25 14:29, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement >> which is at least as good as FTP? >> >> I'm aware that there's webdav, but that's very awkward to use and >> missing features. > > What about sshfs? It allows y

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-29 Thread lee
Mick writes: > On Tuesday 25 Apr 2017 16:45:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 25/04/2017 16:29, lee wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement >> > which is at least as good as FTP? >> > >> > I'm aware that there's webdav, but that's very awkward t

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-26 Thread Danny YUE
On 2017-04-26 20:25, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Danny YUE wrote: >> >> On 2017-04-25 19:59, R0b0t1 wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Danny YUE wrote: On 2017-04-25 14:29, lee wrote: > Hi, > > since the usage of FTP seems to be declining,

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-26 Thread Poison BL.
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:29 AM, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement > which is at least as good as FTP? > > I'm aware that there's webdav, but that's very awkward to use and > missing features. > > > -- > "Didn't work" is an error. > > The

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-26 Thread R0b0t1
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Danny YUE wrote: > > On 2017-04-25 19:59, R0b0t1 wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Danny YUE wrote: >>> >>> On 2017-04-25 14:29, lee wrote: Hi, since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement which is at least as

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-25 Thread Danny YUE
On 2017-04-25 19:59, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Danny YUE wrote: >> >> On 2017-04-25 14:29, lee wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement >>> which is at least as good as FTP? >>> >>> I'm aware that there's webdav, but that

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-25 Thread R0b0t1
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Danny YUE wrote: > > On 2017-04-25 14:29, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement >> which is at least as good as FTP? >> >> I'm aware that there's webdav, but that's very awkward to use and >> missing features.

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-25 Thread Danny YUE
On 2017-04-25 14:29, lee wrote: > Hi, > > since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement > which is at least as good as FTP? > > I'm aware that there's webdav, but that's very awkward to use and > missing features. What about sshfs? It allows you to mount a location that can

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-25 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 25 Apr 2017 16:45:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 25/04/2017 16:29, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement > > which is at least as good as FTP? > > > > I'm aware that there's webdav, but that's very awkward to use and > > missing fe

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 25/04/2017 16:29, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement > which is at least as good as FTP? > > I'm aware that there's webdav, but that's very awkward to use and > missing features. > > Why not stick with ftp? Or, put another way, why do

[gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-25 Thread lee
Hi, since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement which is at least as good as FTP? I'm aware that there's webdav, but that's very awkward to use and missing features. -- "Didn't work" is an error.