[lug] ftp problem

[Gary Hodges]

D. Stimits wrote:

> Gary Hodges wrote:
>
>> For another test I tried uploading ten uncompressed tar files and 
>> four came in without problems.  Tar archives are sequential, right?  
>> I think it is strange that files are randomly missing from the tar 
>> archives.  If the transfer didn't finish, wouldn't the files be 
>> missing from the end?  I'll play with the size verification code 
>> below and the md5 suggestion too...
>
>
> Is it possible that not all of the files going into the tarball have 
> the same permissions...perhaps permissions are a problem? Or perhaps 
> if the files are not static and change, is it possible that the tar is 
> occurring at a moment when the files are not completely there? 


All the files have the the same ownership and permissions.  Once 
created, the files are static.  In the tests I've been running, it was 
all on prior days of data so no chance of new files being written.  
During these tests, sometimes a tar file of a particular day of data 
will be OK, and other times it has problems.  I've never found a created 
tarball on the local machine to have problems.  Only after sending it 
back here.

Gary