Subject: Sigh Argh and all emotions in between

From: Stephen Thompson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 08:19:17 +1000

I had a some hair about 3 weeks ago, and now I have none...... Please
somebody help me out :-)

Two problems. 

1) wu-ftp Never seems to kick idle processess so they just build up and keep
building till they reach the limit. I normally log in once every 2 hours and
"prune" idle processes

2) .tar.gz or .tar.Z. I Just can't seem to get this to work. I have the
correct ftpconvertions files, but for good measure I am going to include the
files in this messages

/usr/local/etc/ftpconvertions

 :.Z:  :  :/bin/zcat %s:T_REG|T_ASCII:O_UNCOMPRESS:UNCOMPRESS
 :-z:  :  :/bin/zcat %s:T_REG|T_ASCII:O_UNCOMPRESS:UNCOMPRESS
 :.gz:  :  :/bin/zcat %s:T_REG|T_ASCII:O_UNCOMPRESS:UNCOMPRESS
 :  :  :.Z:/bin/compress -c %s:T_REG:O_COMPRESS:COMPRESS
 :  :  :.gz:/bin/gzip -c %s:T_REG:O_COMPRESS:COMPRESS
 :  :  :.tar:/bin/tar -c -f - %s:T_REG|T_DIR:O_TAR:TAR
 :  :  :.tar.Z:/bin/tar -c -Z -f -
%s:T_REG|T_DIR:O_COMPRESS|O_TAR:TAR+COMPRESS
 :  :  :.tar.z:/bin/tar -c -z -f -
%s:T_REG|T_DIR:O_COMPRESS|O_TAR:TAR+COMPRESS
 :  :  :.tar.gz:/bin/tar -c -z -f -
%s:T_REG|T_DIR:O_COMPRESS|O_TAR:TAR+COMPRES

ls -l of /ftp/bin

total 1416
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root     system     32768 Mar 27 17:43 compress
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root     system    313904 Mar 27 17:42 gzip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root     system    409600 Jan  8 14:22 ls
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root     system    655360 Mar 28 15:49 tar
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root     system     32768 Apr  5 23:18 zcat

/usr/local/etc/ftpaccess

class   local    real,guest,anonymous  *.digital.com.au 0.0.0.0 127.0.0.1
*.dec.com *.digital.com
class   remote   real,guest,anonymous  *

limit   remote  10   Any              /usr/local/etc/toofull.msg
limit   local   20      Any     /usr/local/etc/toofull.msg
readme  README*    login
readme  README*    cwd=*

message /welcome.msg            login
message .message                cwd=*

compress        yes             local remote
gzip            yes             local   remote
tar             yes             local remote

log commands real
log transfers anonymous,real inbound,outbound
delete          no      guest,anonymous         # delete permission?
overwrite       no      guest,anonymous         # overwrite permission?
rename                  no              guest,anonymous                 #
rename
 permission?
chmod           no      anonymous               # chmod permission?
umask           no      anonymous               # umask permission?

shutdown /etc/shutmsg
passwd-check    rfc822  warn
email [email-masked]
Stephen Thompson ([email-masked])
Regional Systems Support Group (CSC)
Digital Equipment Corporation Australia Pty Ltd 
ACN 000 446 800 
Phone +61-2-561-5566
Fax +61-2-561-5488
 (DTN 730-5566)
Making it work ...

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From: [email-masked] (Koos van den Hout _U nix and we all_)
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 16:14:34 +0200 (MET DST)

> I had a some hair about 3 weeks ago, and now I have none...... Please

Oh dear. It looks like wu-ftpd is causing early baldness again.

Anyway, a first remedy against this kind of baldness is in the FAQ for
wu-ftpd at

http://www.hvu.nl/~koos/wu-ftpd-faq.html

> building till they reach the limit. I normally log in once every 2 hours and

You do have the latest beta version ?

> correct ftpconvertions files, but for good measure I am going to include the

The conversion is never started or the files come out empty/with errors ?

>  :  :  :.tar:/bin/tar -c -f - %s:T_REG|T_DIR:O_TAR:TAR

                        ^^

With some tar implementations, dashes for parameters screw up things.

                                            Grtx. KH

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