Mark Carlson wrote:
> On 6/11/08, Joseph Szikora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Peter Van den Wildenbergh wrote:
>> > Joseph Szikora wrote:
>> > > Using Mandrive 2007. I am trying to upload a number of files to my
>> > > web space using ftp. I was successful to upload a tar but I can not
>> > > untar it on the wremote. I used mput and put, using type ASCII and
>> > > binary, but I got the message: command successful, could not create
>> > > file. What is wrong? Can ftp used at all to upload files? I used
>> > > ftp 15 years ago in the bulletin board times. Thanks for any
>> > > answer.
>>
>> ==============================================================
>>
>>
>> > Untar locally and FTP files over ...
>>
>> I have all the files on my computer single and archived. I thought, that
>> mput a tar file will unpack it on the server. I tried uploading
>> individual files too, see message above.
>>
>>
>> > Do not have the right permissions on the webserver ? (run the tar
>> > command / create directories files)
>>
>> yes, but if I am in ftp, I can't run tar xf...
>>
>>
>> > What is the "untar" command you use? tar -xvf filename.tar ...
>>
>> yes.
>>
>> I printed out all the ftp man pages, but obviously, I am missing something.
>> Thanks Peter.
>>
>
> FTP will not untar your files for you.
>
> If you get the 'could not create file' message, it could be because:
> - You do not have any hard drive space left on the FTP server
> - There is already a file with that name on the FTP server
> - The directory is not writable
> - You are not logged in properly, and have read-only access
>
>
> E-Mark C.
My error was to include into the mput argument the full path with the filename.
After I lcd-d into the local directory, where the files were, everything went
without a problem.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Joseph.
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