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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!demon!robobar.co.uk!gtoal Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd From: gtoal@robobar.co.uk (Graham Toal) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.4 2/2/92) Subject: [386bsd] Notice to 386bsd ftp maintainers, and ftpd author Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:15:39 +0000 Message-ID: <9212172115.aa05898@broccoli.robobar.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 13 Thanks to pauls@umich, we now know the reason for occassional problems with the new ftp server that allows you to fetch whole directories as ..tar files. What happens is that if the tar finds an unreadable file, it skips it and outputs an error message to the 'screen' - unfortunately because of the way the job is piped into ftp this ends up in the tar file which then fails to unpack properly. The interim solution is to make sure all your files are permitted! The long-term solution is to fix the ftpd code so that error messages are directed somewhere else, and if possible reported to the ftp client. Graham