Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!midway!midway.uchicago.edu!francis From: francis@arthur.zaphod.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Sumex & FTP Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 00:42:14 GMT References: <9103191226.aa09785@FSAC1.PICA.ARMY.MIL> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL's message of 19 Mar 91 17:26:40 GMT In article <9103191226.aa09785@FSAC1.PICA.ARMY.MIL> tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL (Tom Coradeschi) writes: Some folks on comp.sys.mac.comm have been enquiring about how to do ftp sessions with sumex, now that the 25 user limit has been imposed. I'd like to point out that I've only once run into this limit. (Of course, I tend to work a bit late--but rarely as late as all that. :-) One solution is to run your ftp session via a script. The following is one I've been using for a long time, and it seems to work quite well. Very nice. [...] of your shellscript. The & character is the Cshell command to run the process in the background. If you run bourne shell or k shell or whatever, you'll have to dig around for the appropriate command to do that. It's the same. (It's probably the same on all shells--sh came up with it, and everybody seems to have inherited it.) The second method is to use the "at" command. Here, the syntax is a little simpler, but you must be sure that at runs on your system. And that you've got permissions--talk to your sysadmin. -- /============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \============================================================================/