[CentOS] Two ftp clients? Why?
夜神 岩男
supergiantpotato at yahoo.co.jp
Wed Aug 3 05:12:27 UTC 2011
On 08/03/2011 06:41 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> But back to the original problem, why would anyone use ftp in this
> century when rsync or http(s) are so much easier to manage?
Do we have Kerberized rsync yet? Or Globus rsync?
If so... please post a link and... (^.^)
Anyway, that sort of gets to the heart of just why we have several (not
just two) ftp options. ftp, vsftp, Kerberized ftp, gridftp, etc... Its a
pretty common tool and in some specific cases scripting the niche ones
is necessary due to a lack of alternatives to match a given environment
-- though if security isn't an issue (bringing in signed, public
packages from a repo, say)... then yeah, rsync; though some people view
it as "just one more thing to have to learn" and never discovering the
benefits.
-Iwao
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