[NTLUG:Discuss] slightly OT: ftp from linux to mget from SVR4

[Leroy Tennison]

Fred James wrote:
> All
>  From a Linux (Mandriva 2007) system, I run 'ftp -i' to a SVR4 release 4 
> system to do an 'mget *' - just one directory of files, no 
> subdirectories as this isn't guaranteed in ftp.
> I set the mode to binary
> 
> (question 1)
> Before any of the file transfer begins I get a message that says ...
> WARNING! n bare linefeeds received in ASCII mode
> ... where n is equal to the number of files transfered
> 
> Does that mean anything?
> 
> (question 2)
> The total number of files to be transferred is 551
> The number of files transferred while varying slightly is about 535, and 
> on any given run I get this message interspersed in the process ...
> ... about 16 times (essentially, about the number of files missing +/-).
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer
> Regards
>  
> Further detail if required:
> There are 24 subdirectories of files to transfer, with different totals 
> per directory, but a total of 551 files to transfer
> The ftp processes are run separately, once for each of the 24 subdirectories
> 
> 
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I did the exact same thing yesterday only using CentOS 4.5 as the client 
and an unknown server (a CentOS mirror on the Internet).  Didn't have 
any problems.  An idea, try the same -i invocation with mget * at

ftp://mirror.rhsmith.umd.edu/pub/centos/5.0/updates/i386/RPMS/

to see if it's a server issue.  If you have the same problem then it's a 
client issue or there's something really odd about the particular files 
you are encountering problems with.  Another thought, have you tried 
just 'get' on these files to see if there are any file-specific issues?