On 12/25/11 20:12, STeve Andre' wrote: > [apologies if you see this twice--having mail loss problems] > > I have an old FTP machine (3.6!) that a horde of people are > suckling from at the moment. I'm making a new one remotely, > but found that an 'mget *' on the new machine fails, with no > such file. There are 515 files in the dir; the 3.6 system expands > the mget, and the newer 4.9-current doesn't. > > I don't see anything in the ftpd man page about this. Was > this a change, or did I miss something? I've currently got 110 > people feeding from a 128M machine and would like to put > this larger machine into service right now. ;-) > > Thanks! > > --STeve Andre'
I'm not seeing this. >From my 5.0-cur machine, I can mget * an entire OpenBSD release, either from a mirror (running OpenBSD 5.0) or from a local machine (also running OpenBSD 5.0). And as this is something I do frequently, if it broke at any point, I'd probably notice. So, I don't think it is simply a matter of expanding mget. Could it be that with 515 files, the mget is blowing out some maximum number of chars when the globbing is expanded? Either your 4.9 (why 4.9??) machine has more (or longer file names), or a small difference in some buffer is pushing you over some edge between 3.6 and 4.9? Nick.
