From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 21: 5:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.actrix.gen.nz (mail2.actrix.gen.nz [203.96.16.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C9E15226 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 21:05:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@xtra.co.nz) Received: from actrix.gen.nz (actrix@lemuria.actrix.gen.nz [203.96.16.20]) by mail.actrix.gen.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA28083 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:05:10 +1200 (NZST) From: "Dan Langille" Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:05:11 +1200 Subject: get .tar doesn't always work X-Mailer: DMailWeb Web to Mail Gateway 1.6f, http://netwinsite.com/top_mail.htm Message-id: <372688f7.718e.0@actrix.gen.nz> X-User-Info: 202.37.52.5 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A reader of my website sent me a message regarding the mirror sites. They told me that not all of the FreeBSD sites permit a client to grab a tarball of a directory. For example, if you wanted the floppies directory for 3.1-STABLE, you could do the following: cd /pub/FreeBSD/3.1-STABLE get floppies.tar This will work on ftp.freebsd.org but not on ftp5.FreeBSD.org. The latter gives the error: ftp> get floppies.tar local: floppies.tar remote: floppies.tar 227 Entering Passive Mode (18,24,10,20,237,119) 550 floppies.tar: No such file or directory. ftp> I assume this is feature a characteristic of the ftp server. Has anyone seen a list which indicates which ftp servers support this feature? Dan LangilleThe FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message