From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 29 09:11:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01727 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 09:11:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from TripleCrown.Aldridge.com (TripleCrown.Aldridge.com [209.113.58.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01623 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 09:11:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dlac@aldridge.com) Received: from aldridge.com (america.aldridge.com [209.113.55.1]) by TripleCrown.Aldridge.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA25251 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 11:11:12 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <356EDE1F.10E86F63@aldridge.com> Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 11:11:11 -0500 From: "David L. Aldridge" Organization: The Aldridge Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: follow: Re: Problem encountered Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Could it be that you do not realize that you are downloading a 'tarball' and not the actual port? The port is downloaded as the first step of the make process. If I have misinterpreted your problem, I am sorry for stating the obvious. If I have not, you need to read the documentation on ports. Regards Dave > >> >> >I've got a problem with this ftp site (ftp.freebsd.org), and I don't >> >> >know to whom I should post it. >> >> >The problem is that when I want to download a port for any application >> >> >(e.g. Scilab.tar), I can get only the very first 1k, then it stops. I >> >> >thought this is because of my provider, but when I try downloading the >> >> >corresponding distfile (tgz), it works perfectly. >> >> >I mention that this started about one week ago, and keeps on repeating. >> >> >If you have any suggestion, please let me know. >> >> >> >> Do you have any trouble getting any of the other 'ports'? This sounds like >> >> it might be a bad link in the path between us and you. >> > >> > Here is more information: when I try to download a tar file for a port >> >within Netscape or ftp client, I try to get 'dirname.tar' wher dirname is the >> >name of the directory the port resides in. It is the server job to run tar. There >> >is a little difference between Netscape and ftp client. Netscape reports only 1k >> >(stalled) and keeps waiting for the rest; the ftp client receives 10240 and then >> >give me the prompter, but the tar file contains only the Makefile. This is >> >happening anytime I try to get a directory like a tar file. >> > Also I must specify that this is happening on both servers (ftp.freebsd.org >> >and ftp2.freebsd.org). For normal downloading (e.g. get 'filename') it works >> >perfectly. >> >> That's pretty strange. I just tested it here with Netscape, retrieving >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/security/ssh.tar and had no trouble >> getting the complete (50K) file. >> ftp.freebsd.org and ftp2.freebsd.org handle .tar entirely different. In >> the ftp.freebsd.org (actually wcarchive.cdrom.com), the tarring feature is >> entirely written by me and is internal to the ftp daemon. In the other case, >> it is the normal /usr/bin/tar through a pipe method. >> >> -DG >> >> David Greenman >> Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > -- David L. Aldridge The Aldridge Company 281.368.0166 (fax: 281.368.0381) http://www.aldridge.com/ Powered by Pentium/FreeBSD/Apache - Because it works. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message