You’d like to upload some files from a PC running Windows via FTP to another server every now and then? It’s as easy as:

• saving the appropriate FTP commands in a text file
• using Windows’ built-in ftp command along with the text file
• adding a task to the at scheduler.

Let’s have a look at this.

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After upgrading from Linux VServer 2.0 to 2.2 I got an error message after trying to start a vserver:

ncontext: vc_net_create(): Invalid argument

Since version 2.2 the dynamic context feature is disabled by default and marked as deprecated. So you’ll have to assign a context to your vservers manually.
I wrote a script that’ll do the labor for us. Paste it in /usr/local/sbin and call it with the name of the vserver as argument; I have tested this on Debian.

By the way: I read about the problem in the Linux VServer FAQ.