From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 28 11:30:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4DF337B401; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 11:30:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id LAA08565; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 11:30:04 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda08559; Sat Jul 28 11:29:50 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.4/8.9.1) id f6SITne21580; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 11:29:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from UNKNOWN(10.1.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdY21578; Sat Jul 28 11:28:54 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.4/8.9.1) id f6SISZv02122; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 11:28:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200107281828.f6SISZv02122@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdrl2113; Sat Jul 28 11:28:33 2001 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: schubert To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Lev Serebryakov , All Subject: Re: ftp -- bug or feature? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 28 Jul 2001 19:17:29 BST." <20010728191729.B24872@strontium.shef.vinosystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 11:28:33 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010728191729.B24872@strontium.shef.vinosystems.com>, Ben Smithurs t writes: > Lev Serebryakov wrote: > > > I've tried to get full RFC list from one ftp site into file: > >=20 > > ftp>ls rfc* rfc.lst > >=20 > > After this command rfc. lst contain only 998 lines, but this ftp site > > contain more than 2500 files, which match 'rfc*' mask. > > After that I've tried other ftp client (FAR manager for Windows NT, > > really) and it shows me full catalog -- more than 2500 files. > >=20 > > Is it bug or feature of FreeBSD's ftp? > > Sounds to me more like the FTP server limits the number of filenames > returned by glob matching to limit the amount of resources used by the > ftpd process. This was implemented to address FreeBSD-SA-01:33.ftpd-glob. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD Ministry of Management Services Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message