On Tuesday 04 September 2018 06:20:10 Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 01:35:35PM -0000, Dan Purgert wrote: > > [*] Please you one last holdout using our ancient FTP service, let's > > move to the 21st century and use SFTP, please? > > Last week, we decommissioned an ancient server[1] and then got a call > two days later from an academic complaining that his web site had > disappeared. One of my predecessors had set him up with an > arrangement where he FTPed his files to this ancient server, then the > actual web host ran a daily cron job to scp files into production. > > We somehow managed to convince him that the easiest solution would be > for him to use SFTP directly to the web server instead, and thus my > last FTP user fell. > > Being rid of that protocol felt even better than I had anticipated. > > > [1] I don't know how old it was exactly - it was here before I started > - but it was running a version of Red Hat that was EOLed over a decade > ago.
FTP was in common use by my Amiga back in the early 90's, so I'd guess its probably even in AT&T's unix in the 80's. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
