Re: Missing emails

Hello James,

James D. Robinson said on Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 02:09:38PM -0400:
>I do not seem to be receiving any new emails from Mondorescue, my last =

>one on this PC was dated late last year.

Seems correct after https://sourceforge.net/p/mondo/mailman/mondo-devel/

>I know that the FTP site has been updated but I am unable download the =

>latest version. =


The ftp server per se is working:

$ ncftp ftp.mondorescue.org
NcFTP 3.2.6 (Dec 04, 2016) by Mike Gleason (http://www.NcFTP.com/contact/).

Copyright (c) 1992-2016 by Mike Gleason.
All rights reserved.

Connecting to 185.170.48.239...
Welcome to mondorescue FTP Site. All connexions are logged. Please disconne=
ct if you don't like it. The site is the master FTP site for the mondorescu=
e project. Happy downloading.
Logging in...
Login successful.
Logged in to ftp.mondorescue.org.
ncftp / > dir
drwxrwxr-x    4 ftp      ftp         4096   ao=FBt  9  2022   alma
drwxr-xr-x    4 ftp      ftp         4096   mars  5  2009   asianux
drwxr-xr-x    2 ftp      ftp         4096   mars  6  2007   audio
drwxr-xr-x    6 ftp      ftp         4096   mars 23  2020   centos
[...]

> I had several problems when previously updating to the =

>latest LTS version, so when a PC died I thought it would a good time =

>to install from the latest version of Xubuntu and MondoRescue. The =

>first problem that synaptic does not normally accept ftp sites. I =


Alas (IMHO) too many tools seem to consider ftp isn't useful anymore which =
I disagree with, but that's another story :-)

>found a change to a conf file that allowed that the work, but I still =

>could not access the main ftp site. Could I use Peter Clark's site =

>instead, but then, I am unsure of the syntax to use to access it.

You can also use http in your config file:
http://mondorescue.org/ftp/ is a drop in replacement for ftp://ftp.mondores=
cue.org

So you can adapt your conf files accordingly.

Best regards,
Bruno.
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