Log of session: [chrismcc@wednesday chrismcc]$ host ftp.redhat.com ftp.redhat.com. has address 216.148.218.192 ftp.redhat.com. has address 63.240.14.64 [chrismcc@wednesday chrismcc]$ ncftp 63.240.14.64 NcFTP 3.0.1 (March 27, 2000) by Mike Gleason (ncftp). Connecting to 63.240.14.64... FTP server ready. Logging in... Please read the file README it was last modified on Tue Jan 25 08:51:37 2000 - 311 days ago Please read the file README.roughcuts it was last modified on Fri Jan 21 17:32:20 2000 - 315 days ago Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. Logged in to 63.240.14.64. ncftp / > cd /pub/rawhide/powertools/SRPMS Could not chdir to /pub/rawhide/powertools/SRPMS: server said: /pub/rawhide/powertools/SRPMS: No such file or directory. ncftp / > ls aic/ large-fd/ README.roughcuts up2date/ contrib/ rawhide/ redhat/ du-s.txt README sound/ ncftp / > pwd ftp://63.240.14.64 this ftp server is missing /pub the other ftp server seems fine added as "high" because this probably breaks stuff like up2date
It doesn't seem to missing /pub, it seems to be using /pub as the root entry directory for users. If you back up one directory, you can see /pub. For example, the link at: http://www.redhat.com/swr/noarch/redhat-logos-1.1.2-3.noarch_dl.html points to: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/redhat-logos-1.1.2-3.noarch.rpm which is broken both because of the /pub thing (I think) and because the URL is just plain wrong -- it should be: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.0/i386/en/RedHat/RPMS/redhat.logos-1.1.2-3.noarch.rpm
they are also not in sync with each other -rw-rw-r-- 6 506 235 132070 Nov 10 12:00 openldap-devel-1.2.9-6.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 6 300 235 438272 Nov 12 16:07 bind-devel-8.2.2_P7-0.6.2.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 6 300 235 740240 Nov 12 16:07 bind-utils-8.2.2_P7-0.6.2.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 6 300 235 1748788 Nov 12 16:08 bind-8.2.2_P7-0.6.2.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 6 300 235 3218948 Nov 17 14:45 netscape-navigator-4.76-0.6.2.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 6 300 235 8526690 Nov 17 14:50 netscape-common-4.76-0.6.2.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 6 300 235 6051318 Nov 17 14:51 netscape-communicator-4.76-0.6.2.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 2 300 235 117650 Nov 20 10:19 joe-2.8-42.62.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 2 300 235 1528036 Nov 22 15:02 ghostscript-5.50-8_6.x.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 2 300 235 326155 Nov 22 18:47 modutils-2.3.21-0.6.2.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 2 300 235 769408 Nov 23 11:24 ncurses-5.0-12.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 2 300 235 602321 Nov 23 11:24 ncurses-devel-5.0-12.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 2 300 235 228170 Nov 27 14:05 bash-1.14.7-23.6x.i386.rpm ftp://63.240.14.64/up2date/rhl-6.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ -rw-rw-r-- 4 300 235 17116 Jul 28 23:59 gpm-devel-1.19.3-0.6.x.i386.rpm -r--r--r-- 2 root root 24376 Jul 31 23:59 du-s.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 300 235 564480 Aug 7 23:59 umb-scheme-3.2-12.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 300 235 46701 Aug 8 23:59 mailx-8.1.1-16.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 300 235 38606 Aug 9 23:59 popt-1.5-9.6x.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 300 235 1236810 Aug 9 23:59 rpm-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 300 235 46368 Aug 9 23:59 rpm-build-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 300 235 246948 Aug 9 23:59 rpm-devel-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 300 235 24204 Aug 9 23:59 rpm-python-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 3 300 235 8396022 Aug 18 23:59 netscape-common-4.75-0.6.2.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 3 300 235 6049019 Aug 18 23:59 netscape-communicator-4.75-0.6.2.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 3 300 235 3215141 Aug 18 23:59 netscape-navigator-4.75-0.6.2.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 6 505 235 5042092 Aug 18 23:59 perl-5.00503-12.i386.rpm ftp://216.148.218.192/up2date/rhl-6.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ ncftp ...l-6.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS >
The ftp server is no longer laid out this way. The new layout would be /pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/... The link currently displayed in the /swr/ section of the site is correct.