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- From: gtoal@robobar.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.4 2/2/92)
- Subject: [386bsd] Notice to 386bsd ftp maintainers, and ftpd author
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:15:39 +0000
- Message-ID: <9212172115.aa05898@broccoli.robobar.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
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- Thanks to pauls@umich, we now know the reason for occassional problems
- with the new ftp server that allows you to fetch whole directories as
- .tar files. What happens is that if the tar finds an unreadable file,
- it skips it and outputs an error message to the 'screen' - unfortunately
- because of the way the job is piped into ftp this ends up in the tar
- file which then fails to unpack properly.
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- The interim solution is to make sure all your files are permitted!
- The long-term solution is to fix the ftpd code so that error messages
- are directed somewhere else, and if possible reported to the ftp client.
-
- Graham
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