Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 79367
ftp client: runique on stops mget from working
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:06:52 EST
Description of Problem: The ftp client does not support the combination of 'runique' and 'mget' as stated in the man pages. If runique is turned on during an ftp session, 'mget' fails to get anything. However, 'get' will get the file and rename it with a ".1" (or appropriate number). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Not sure, whatever comes with RedHat 7.1 and 7.3 by default How Reproducible: Consistent Steps to Reproduce: 1. FTP to a site with some files to get 2. Turn on runique (ftp> runique) 3. Attempt to do an mget (ftp> mget *) 4. No files will be transferred. 5. Turn runique off (ftp> runique) 6. Attempt to do an mget (ftp> mget *) 7. All matching files will be transferred 8. Turn runique off again 8. Try 'get' and it will get the specified file (ftp> get filename) 9. Try 'get' again and it will get the file and rename it with a .1 (ftp> get filename) Actual Results: Mget does not transfer files with runique on but works fine with runique off. Expected Results: mget should get all the matching filenames and rename them with a suffix if .## (such as .1) when runique is turned on. Additional Information: I tried this in SuSE Linux 7.3 and it has the same problem.
Is this /usr/bin/ftp or /usr/kerberos/bin/ftp?
This is /usr/bin/ftp
Please verify this with a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora Core and reopen it against the new version if it still occurs. Closing as "not a bug" for now.
Tested with the same result in RedHat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1. If runique is enabled, mget does not function.
Please have a look at http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/SRPMS/2.1AS/ftp-0.17-12.1.3.src.rpm http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/RPMS/2.1AS/ftp-0.17-12.1.3.i386.rpm This package should fix the problem. ---- Please remeber that this is a test package, which might be pushed out as an update package later if the fixes are ok.
Tested the linked update (ftp-0.17-12.1.3.i386.rpm) on RHEL AS 2.1 and it fixes the problem.
This bug was fixed by Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> on 2004-12-07 It is a patch netkit-ftp-0.17-runique_mget.patch. This 'bug' does not occure in FEDOR CORE 4.