Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:05:11 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: get <dir>.tar doesn't always work Message-ID: <372688f7.718e.0@actrix.gen.nz>
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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
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