PartImage + Gentoo (- FTP ?!)

Kronos · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2002 12:41 am Post subject: PartImage + Gentoo (- FTP ?!)

Ok, been making a Gentoo CD that has partimage on it for my work in the CS Lab at my college. But... gentoo 1.2 doesn't have ftp in it! I need ftp. That's it to make it complete - 1 CD to backup, ftp up, save/restore images for all the machines in my lab.

Ok, apparently gentoo 1.2 doesn't have ftp in it. The previous versions did. Dang it. I got the executable and the library in. Now it says

ftp/tcp: unknown service

(service not present, or something like that)

There a config file i need to edit or something?

Blargh.

Benjamin W. Fisher
William Jewell College
CS Department

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20522

I'm guessing, have you checked /etc/services?
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Kronos · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2002 6:42 am Post subject:

/etc/services doesn't exist on the gentoo disc (rescue.gz)

psp · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2002 11:54 am Post subject:

Looks like it is missing /etc/services (and possibly /etc/nsswitch.conf) to me. But why not use sftp/scp/ssh instead? This is standard on the CD and more secure.

snoopey · n00b Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 17

Hm.
Are you aware of the networking-function within partimage?
The backup/restore-system of an Internet-café I'm running, is completely based on Gentoo and partimage.

Kronos · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 12:51 am Post subject:

>> But why not use sftp/scp/ssh instead? This is standard on the CD and more secure.

Mostly because I'm in a Microsoft owned (not really, just psychologically) environment. I can only work with 'doze servers. So that rules out ssh. And I'm behind a craptastic M$ proxy server. Which makes installing gentoo, by the way, on my personal machine next to impossible.

I got it working last night, at any rate. Just added an /etc/services file in. Works wonders.