On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:47:06PM +0800, Lars Hansson wrote:
> On Friday 03 March 2006 07:05, Marc Espie wrote:
> > Yes, it's obvious the `Succesfully retrieved file' is a GOOD message,
> > but not one I get from `usual' ftp servers.
> >
> > The idea here is that I want to see some ftp messages, but not all of
> > them, so that I can figure out what's going on.
> 
> Speaking of ftp messages and pkg_add; I use 
> ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386/ as PKG_PATH
> and i get a lot of huge messages when adding packages.
> Example blob:
> ===========
> Error from ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386/:        
>    
>      +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
>      |   WELCOME   TO   JAIST Public FTP service                           |
>      |                                                                     |
>      |            F  T  P  .  J  A  I  S  T  .  A  C  .  J  P              |
>      |                                                                     |
>      +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
>  
>      Our server is working with 7T bytes disk and very fat network.
>      And this server is also certified as one of official download server
>      by many projects.
>  
>                        *** Maintenance Notice ***
>  
>      We have scheduled temporaly service suspension for maintenance
>      on 2005/Dec/16 12:00 - 15:00 JST, or 2005/Dec/16 3:00 - 6:00 GMT.
>  
>      Eclipse mirror had been choked from Sep. 4 until Oct. 7.
>      It recovered and synchronizes with the master site now.
>      We are sorry for your inconvenient.
> =========
> 
> It's a bit annoying since output from pkg_add scrolls by like lightning but 
> it 
> doesnt seem to affect pkg_add functionality on any way. I'm not sure this can 
> be fixed other than letting the site maintainers know and ask them not to do 
> this.

yes, it's a misbehaving ftp server, there is one here as well. those
lines should start with '220'. any strange output is displayed to stderr.

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