[wplug] ftp server setup

[John Harrold]

Sometime in April Bill assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Elwin
| 
| I'd suggest setting up ssh and using sftp instead of ftp.  
| 
| As for setting up ftp, it depends on what brand of the server you are
| running.  Configuration between different implementations is often
| similar but not identical.
| 
| Woody and such names are the project names the developers use before the
| system is released.  

also, if you already have an ssh server running, you can just use rsync
over ssh.  something like:

rsync -av -e "ssh -2" /local/path/to/files/* user at home.computer.net:/path/to/sick/stuff/

where /loca/path/... is the path to the files on your laptop and
home.computer.net is the hostname or ipaddress of your computer at home.

rsync is a good idea if you are using a slow connection like a modem. if
you want to stop in the middle of the transfer, you can disconnect and
pickup where you left off. i'm pretty sure you can do this with ftp, but i
don't trust it as much :).

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