Various questions (mostly FTP)

[Tom Needs a Hat Mitchell]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 07:24:02PM -0500, Jwp wrote:
> Thanks Andrew:
> > > 1.)     Can anyone suggest an application that will show me the speed at
> > > which my FTP server is pushing?  And/or what my download speed is?
> > 
> > You can use wget, both on your machine itself to measure download speed
> > rate, as well as on a remote machine for measuring the speed with which
> > your FTP server offers data. Choose big files for transfer.
> 
> Thanks, that will do the trick for checking my download speed.  But so far
> as uploading I would like to be able to monitor the speed at which I am
> pushing files in realtime from my machine.

Read the sar man page:

   # sar -n DEV  5 5

There are also X based graphical and text bases charting tools.
       
 gkrellm, iptraf and more.


> 
> > > 2.)     I have a MS 2 button mouse with a scroll wheel, if I am looking
> > at a
> > > web page and press the scroll wheel it causes the Konquerer to go back a
> > > page OR it pastes clipboard data into the address bar?  How can I stop
> > this
> > > behaviour, I have tried changing mouse settings with no luck.
> > 
> > What exactly do you want to achieve? Do you want to activate the scroll
> > wheel totally or only click functionality while the wheel shall still
> > roll? What are your actual settings?
> 
> The problem is while scrolling up and down a webpage, sometimes I click the
> wheel and jump back a page, so I would like to keep the scrolling
> functionality and disable the scroll button click.  	I am using a PS/2
> intellimouse on mouse configuration the "Emulate 3 button click is
> UNCHECKED"
> 
> > > 3.)     Also in regards to FTP, I am unable to access FTP from the
> > command
> > > line?  This one boggles me as It used to work just fine now whenever I
> > > attempt to invoke an ftp connection from the command line I just get
> > another
> > > command prompt, no error no nothing just another prompt.
> > 
> > Do you get a shell prompt or the ftp prompt? The ftp RPM is installed?
> > You must have changed something if ftp on command line did work before.
> 
> Well I take it back.  I just checked again and it works just fine.  I
> promise you that for the last 2 weeks this is what it looked like:
> [cosmo]$ ftp
> [cosmo]$
> 
> 
> 
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