[BusyBox] Copy files via Telnet, or use FTP

Jeff Angielski jeff at theptrgroup.com
Tue Dec 31 12:01:04 UTC 2002


On Tuesday 31 December 2002 01:56 pm, Jeff Angielski wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 December 2002 03:24 am, Jeff (Tiscali) wrote:
> > Hello All
> > Excuse my lack of experience of BusyBox and Linux in asking.
> > I have just installed Busybox on an old P200 machine, and everything
> > works fine, but I have a couple of questions, I can open a Telnet
> > session to my P200 machine, can I copy files remotely via Telnet or do I
> > have to install an FTP server on my Busybox system? if so which one?
>
> A simple answer is to just telnet to your BusyBox target machine, and then
> do a wget or ftpget, transferring the files from your host machine to your
> BusyBox machine.

Of course this means your host machine needs to have an FTP server.  But if 
you are using one of the standard Linux distro's it is a piece of cake to get 
that working.


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