[95606] in RedHat Linux List
Re: tar over ftp?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jyan-Min Fang)
Mon Oct 19 18:08:35 1998
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:11:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jyan-Min Fang <fang@beamer8.physics.yale.edu>
To: Michael Jinks <michael@twopoint.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <362B8A82.6AC23C01@twopoint.com>
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On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
> Matt Housh wrote:
> >
> > Anyway, another way to do it is to get entire directories
> > tarred and/or gzipped. For example, if I wanted to mirror redhat from
> > ftp.ou.edu, I'd cd to /mirrors/linux/redhat/redhat-5.1 and type 'get
> > i386.tar.gz'. That'd send me the entire i386 dir, tarred and gzipped.
>
> That's what I thought I'd read somewhere, but here's a transcript of an
> ncftp session conducted with RedHat's ftp server moments ago:
>
>
> > pwd
>
> Current remote directory: /pub/rawhide
>
> > ls
>
> README SRPMS/ alpha/ i386/ sparc/
>
> > get i386.tar.gz
>
> i386.tar.gz: No such file or directory.
get i386.tar
> Issuine the "tar" command brings a similar response, and this is
> independent of the client I use or the site I contact (sunsite, for
> example, _does_ have a tar binary in their ftp site's /bin directory,
> and I'm pretty sure redhat does too).
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