FTPing big files?

[der.hans]

Am 07. Feb, 2001 schwäzte kyle towle so:

> I get an error whenever i try to ftp really large
> files with ftp. Does anybody have any experience with
> this problem?

What's the error you get? We need that to be helpful :).

In the meantime check your ulimit. Not usually a problem in Linux as the
default is unlimited, but it can be if you're sys_adm shrunk it or you ran
something like Bastille.

Also, try ncftp. It will continue from where the ftp died instead of
getting stuff from anew.

If you're behind a firewall you might not be properly proxying ftp, so you
have to use passive ftp. I think there's info on that in the ncftp
manpage.

ciao,

der.hans
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