From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 30 19:05:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA02744 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 19:05:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA02730 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 19:04:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA23337; Wed, 1 May 1996 11:33:29 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605010203.LAA23337@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Running FTP as a slave process ... To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 11:33:28 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <8175.830915707@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 30, 96 06:55:07 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > FTP install sucks, I want to blow. (If you get the picture). > > Hey, I take some offense at that. It was actually pretty hard to make > this work without temp files (especially when your target is split > into multiple pieces) and it's also one of our most genuinely USEFUL > installation methods. I get a lot of positive feedback on it. Er, you didn't get the picture 8) I looked at the sysinstall source I had here (-stable about a month ago I suspect). It sucks (receives) data, but had no provision for blowing (sending). I need to send, so I had to look elsewhere. I was not suggesting for a second that the FTP install loses - I've done far too many FTP installs to make such a suggestion 8) > > > There's also ncftp (which is less ideal). > > > > As far as I can tell it's purely designed for interactive work. > > Not at all. The ports collection has been using it for non-interactive > fetches for over a year! Sure. But I'm writing a daemon that wants to send, not receive. It doesn't do that very well at all. > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[