Subject: Error 451 Local resource failure: malloc: Invalid argument.

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 08:32:38 +0200

Hi,
It looks like my mail is screwed, as I sent this yesterday, but it seems
not to have come thru.
I'm running wu-ftp (BETA 18) on AIX, but when x-fering files in binary
format i get the following error:

ftp> bin
200 Type set to I.
ftp> get hosts hosts1
227 Entering Passive Mode (194,136,213,100,81,24)
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for hosts (0 bytes).
451 Local resource failure: malloc: Invalid argument.

The same in ascii format is working:
ftp> get hosts
227 Entering Passive Mode (194,136,213,100,161,172)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for hosts (0 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
2029 bytes received in 0.1 seconds (19 Kbytes/s)

When this is working I also would like the files to be automatically
compressed by gzip/zip
and I've been copying gzip to ~/bin directory and used ftpconversions, but
it won't get zip'ed.
Any suggestions?

Med vänliga hälsningar / Best regards
Michael Karman
E-mail: [email-masked] alt. [email-masked]
Phone #: +46-8-7932134
Cell phone #: +46-70-7932134

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From: Gregory A Lundberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 05:22:01 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 21 May 1999 [email-masked] wrote:

> compressed by gzip/zip and I've been copying gzip to ~/bin directory
> and used ftpconversions, but it won't get zip'ed. Any suggestions?

Start by getting a current version of the daemon.  VR17 should have fixed
some of the problems you're seeing; the malloc error and the zero-length
reported for files.

As for on-the-fly conversion.  Take a look at my example site laid out at
ftp://ftp.vr.net/pub/wu-ftpd/examples/ .. it's a minimal install (which
will work in Linux using all statically-linked binaries).  That means you
may need additional libraries, devices, or other system glue, to get it to
work on AIX.  Basically, to get gzip to work, read the FAQ about /bin/ls
and guests; where it says 'ls' you read 'gzip'.

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Gregory A Lundberg              Senior Partner, VRnet Company
1441 Elmdale Drive              [email-masked]
Kettering, OH 45409-1615 USA    1-800-809-2195