From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 17:33:40 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA01204 for current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 17:33:40 -0700 Received: from fgwmail.fujitsu.co.jp (fgwmail.fujitsu.co.jp [164.71.1.133]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA01193 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 17:33:34 -0700 Received: from fdmmail.fujitsu.co.jp by fgwmail.fujitsu.co.jp (8.6.12+2.4W/3.3W5-MX941209-Fujitsu Mail Gateway) id JAA02140; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 09:33:25 +0900 Received: from fdm.fujitsu.co.jp by fdmmail.fujitsu.co.jp (8.6.12+2.4W/3.3W5-MX950127-Fujitsu Domain Mail Master) id JAA26452; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 09:32:53 +0900 Received: from sysrap by fdm.fujitsu.co.jp (5.65/6.4J.6) id AA09062; Tue, 25 Apr 95 09:32:52 +0900 Received: from seki.sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp by spad.sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0s3Yg1-0002tnC; Tue, 25 Apr 95 09:40 JST Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 09:28:46 JST From: Masahiro SEKIGUCHI Message-Id: <9504250028.AA04081@seki.sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp> To: Cc: bsdcurrent Subject: 950412 SNAP ftp install (was: "") References: <2F9BFE28@mailman> Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >However, when I get to the bin >installation procedure and ftp the files over to /usr/tmp, the checksum >routine fails. I don't think the checksums are the problem, as it responds >too quickly without doing any work I experienced similar case. When I met it, I found that the "status" screen (Alt-F2) showed the following messages: NcFTP: Could not get your passwd entry! (9): Bad file descriptor Login failed After some investigation, I found the following facts: My system had no "/etc/passwd" at the momemt. (This should be the reason NcFTP could not get the passwd entry...) I accessed a local ftp site to get bindist. The site runs a non-standard version of ftp srever. The server performs a "strict checking" on an email address sent as a password for an anonymous user. The server had logged that anonymous ftp requests from my machine had been rejected because of "invalid" mail addresses as passwords. The mail address NcFTP sent started with '@' -- no local part in the address. I invoked usual ftp, typed in my real email address, and then fetched bindist manually. This sounds like a bug of some kind... but I'm slightly confused now, because I found the ftp install sometimes success with the same boot floppy and the same ftp site. Hope this helps, anyway.