How to TELNET? 1

[sciclunam]

Hi,

I am installing a search engine on my website and the instructions say that I have to set permissions using TELNET and setperms.bat file given with the files. There is also a setperms.sh to be used on UNIX servers.

My servers is UNIX (there is something APACHE?!? It's hosted on

http://www.powweb.com)

What is this exactly?

I went to a command prompt and typed TELNET <My IP> and I got:

A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

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[WartookMan]

Firstly, your Hosting Company needs to allow you to Telnet to them. A lot do not allow this - they only provide FTP access. Check with your Hosting Support.

The BAT file is for a NT/2000/XP system (.BAT - batch file). The SH file is for Unix/Linux (.SH - shell script file).

You may have to ask your Hosting Company to install the files for you - which could be an additional cost.

Alternatively, open the &quot;setperms.sh&quot; (or setperms.bat) into a text editor (TextPad or the like) and see what's in it. If there are only a couple of file permission changes (probably using the CHMOD command) you can probably do this manually using an FTP application for Windows.

I use FTP-Voyager (Commercial), but there are plenty of Shareware/Freeware applications around - SmartFTP, WS FTP Pro, LeechFTP.

[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.lowcostnames.co.uk/help/file_permissions.asp[/URL]

has an example for Unix on it.

Pete.


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[sciclunam]

Hi thanks.

I checked with my provides but they do not allow to telnet to their servers...security reasons I guess!

Anyway, I chmod manually.

Thanks

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