From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 22 20:53:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC9E016A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:53:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lorna.circlesquared.com (host217-45-219-83.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.45.219.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4411443D1D for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:53:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Received: from circlesquared.com (localhost.circlesquared.com [127.0.0.1]) i5MKrKYn042221 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:53:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Message-ID: <40D89C40.3080007@circlesquared.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:53:20 +0100 From: Peter Risdon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040611 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <40D87C23.3010902@mac.com> <200406221341.16097.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <200406221341.16097.kirk@strauser.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 'ftp' command does what...? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:53:25 -0000 Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Tuesday 2004-06-22 01:36 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > >>ftp ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu > > > ...is not a valid URL in that no path component is specified (even a > trailing '/') - at least, that's my understanding of it. Try this instead: > > ftp ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/ > > which works as expected from here. Or: bash-2.05b$ ftp ftp.andrew.cmu.edu Connected to ASG2.WEB.cmu.edu. 220 asg2.web.cmu.edu FTP server (Version 6.00+Heimdal 20031031+KTH-KRB 1.3-20031030) ready. Name (ftp.andrew.cmu.edu:peter): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, type your name as password. Password: 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> Same behaviour with ftp.freebsd.org: bash-2.05b$ ftp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org [snip] 200 Type okay. 501 Syntax error in parameters. 221 Goodbye. bash-2.05b$ ftp ftp.freebsd.org [snip] 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. Password: 230-You are user #78 of 450 simultaneous users allowed. 230- 230 Logged in anonymously. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> Might have something to do with the auto-fetch part of ftp's functionality. Peter.