Re: wu-ftpd & site exec & tar

From: all mail refused (elvis_at_notatla.org.uk)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: 16 Oct 2004 13:33:00 GMT

In article <146d95ae.0410151852.49e53f02@posting.google.com>,
Magda Hewryk wrote:

>The new directory has huge number of tif files (3,000) and when the
>user runs "quote site exec tar -cf file.tar *.tif" only a tar file
>with
>996 files inside is created.

>Any help or hint? Any thoughts?

996 filenames might make a command-line as long as ftpd is prepared
to attempt. Can you put the whole directory in a tarfile
(shorter command-line, possibly more files) ? 

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