From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 22 11:17:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA11258 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 11:17:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from foo.primenet.com (ip211.sjc.primenet.com [206.165.96.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA11240 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 11:16:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bkogawa@localhost) by foo.primenet.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id LAA12979; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 11:22:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 11:22:20 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199611221922.LAA12979@foo.primenet.com> To: nick@grayphics.com Subject: Re: wu-ftpd-2.4 on-the-fly conversion not working. Newsgroups: localhost.freebsd.questions References: From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: >I recently tried to set up mcvert through wu-ftpd's ftconversions so that >I could store our large archives of Mac files in .bin format and convert >them to .hqx on the fly. I couldn't get it to work. >I later discovered that .tar and .gz weren't working either (I had never >had reason to try them before), even after I reinstalled from both the pkg >and the port. >Anyone having similar problems? Any obvious solutions to this? I have >tried using the stock config files included in the package and even .tar >and .gz still don't work. One thing to check is to see if you have a statically-compiled tar and gzip. This is only important if you are chroot'ed, but it could be a significant issue, since ls is static by default, while both tar and gzip aren't. >Thanks, >Nick Esborn >Grayphics >http://www.grayphics.com/ -- bryan k ogawa http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/