How to download the file through filezilla client?

Question

I would like to download the application log file through filezilla. i have to access the log file through putty(first login with my username and passport) after that get into the directory and "sudo su - csuser", then it will ask password and get into the files directory and can see the file using "less -f filename".

But this process very hard to me to see the log file.So i want to download the file through filezilla. I'm able to go to the directory using my username and password but restricted to use only csuser. Is there any way i can login as csuser as like putty ?? or any command to download the file from putty ?

Thanks

Answer 1

I would suggest to you some alternative options (you should check that you are permitted to do the ones after the first one, before doing them):

1. Learn to use less properly. It's really quite a nice program, you can search with / for example.
2. Change the permission on the file so that you can read it, with the chmod command.
3. If you are not allowed to do that, write a cron job that runs as csuser to copy the file over to your user.

By the way, less -f is probably not what you want, unless it is a "special file". You are probably confusing it with tail -f, or less +F --follow-name.