[EnVoy]

What's the command for starting the FTP service thru the CLI?

TIA

[kampl]

Guessing here as I never bothered, but you could vi /etc/xinetd.d/ftp and set disable to no. At that point you can run sudo /usr/sbin/xinetd -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid & . Would probably work, but I haven't tested it. On a sidenote, if you have CLI access remotely (which is what it sounds like) and you are using SSH to access the box, I would recomend use sftp or scp instead which would be more secure in that the authentication and data transfer would be ciphered.

[EnVoy]

Yup, I ended up using scp....

[kampl]

Rock on. My only gripe with scp and sftp is the performance hit I tend to see, but it isn't too bad on LANs.

Now if I can get other people on networks I deal with to do the same thing life will be better. Unlikely