Re: ftp hell

[Joe Ardolino <jardolin@zoo.uvm.edu>]

Hey:

No, no firewall.  Actually I have an even more interesting problem now.
Last night I got the bright idea to ftp the sets that I needed to my other
OpenBSD box (Mac Quadra).  Then during the FTP install, I told it to use
my other box as the FTP server.  It will log in fine, but then tell me
that the directory (/pub/OpenBSD/2.4/i386 -- which I created and put the
tarballs in) doesn't exist.  After a good deal of handwaving and black
magic,  it will finally pull up a list of the sets for me to select.  I
select 'all', and then begin the download, and it tells me that it
can't open the files (it also gives me odd complaints about the
server -- partially because it's trying to stick the directory into the
server name of the ftp server).  When the automated part craps out, I try
to install the sets by hand from the ftp> prompt, at which point it tells
me that the directory is empty (although thru some sort of divine
intervention, it now finds the directory).  Does anyone have any
ideas?  Could this be some kind of glitch with the ftp program on the
install disk itself?  Any info would be greatly appreciated!


-joe.


On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Matthew Patton wrote:

->I used to get this with a RH ftp install (the RPM's ftp code is
->braindead and tries to reuse a connection and my IPFILTER firewall says,
->I don't think so) but not with OpenBSD. Granted, I haven't tried an ftp
->install thru the FW in a good long while. You going thru a FW?
->
->-- 
->This is OpenBSD land. On a quiet night
->you can hear the Windoze users scream.
->