Bug 78905

Summary:	ncftpget displays progress bar when not on tty
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Jonathan Kamens <h1k6zn2m>
Component:	ncftp	Assignee:	Karsten Hopp <karsten>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version:	1.0	CC:	michael
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Description Jonathan Kamens 2002-12-03 11:09:36 UTC

I have a script which does an ncftpget in a cron job.  It just started blatting
progress bar crap into the output of the cron job.  It didn't used to do this --
presumably, ncftpget previously was smart enough to notice when it wasn't
running on a tty and suppress the progress bar, but this has been broken.  I'm
running ncftp-3.1.5-1.

Comment 1 Michael Lee Yohe 2002-12-04 17:46:29 UTC

I don't think this is a bug since there is an option to disable the progress bar
for ncftpget.  

$ ncftpget --help
NcFTPGet 3.1.3

<snip>
  -v/-V  Do (do not) use progress meters.

So, if you add the "-V" option to your cron job, you should not see the progress
meter stuff in your output.

Comment 2 Karsten Hopp 2002-12-04 20:02:56 UTC

A simple update of a package shouldn't break scripts if possible. 
The check for tty was disabled in 3.1.5-1. I've re-enabled it in  
3.1.5-2