On Tue 16 Sep 03, 11:55 AM, Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:35:54AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > <snipped: my long original question trimmed to save bandwidth> > < see web archived version at: > http://www.lugod.org/mailinglists/archives/vox-tech/2003-09/msg00082.html >
ditto. ;-) thanks for putting the url in. that's good thinking. > > 1. http://bugs.debian.org > > $ cat /etc/issue.net > Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche) > Kernel \r on an \m > > ;^) good tip #38271: debian is your friend (even if you don't want friends) before you pooh-pooh this idea, the bugs that are in a package on other linux distros are often the same bugs in debian. it's true there are debian specific bugs, but i've found that often, say 40% - 60% of all the bugs i see are cross distribution. so even if you're using redhat or mandrake or suse, bugs.debian.org is a *very* good resource for you to use! > > 6. strace -o LOG ncftpget -R ftp://USER:"PASSWORD"@ftp.server.com > > Ah-hah! Someone, somewhere, is using "%" as an escape character! > > Based on the debug attempt above (where I was doing the "open" command > within NcFTP client, and not on the command-line in the Bash shell), > it looks like NcFTP itself is doing this. > > I'll have to see if I can get around those "%" characters by > escaping them myself, somehow. > > Thanks! :) :) Good ol' strace. :) no problemo! whenever someone laughs at me for using strace to solve life's simplest problems, i have to chuckle to myself. i would probably *hate* linux if it weren't for strace/ltrace. pete (preparing for hurricane isabel) _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech