misc/157499: fetch confused me with it's error message

Jaakko Heinonen jh at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jun 2 08:10:03 UTC 2011


The following reply was made to PR misc/157499; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh at FreeBSD.org>
To: Konstantin <konstantin.malov at kaspersky.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/157499: fetch confused me with it's error message
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:01:22 +0300

 On 2011-06-01, Konstantin wrote:
 > I have found out some strange error handling in /usr/bin/fetch.
 > Here it is: 
 > 
 > # fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz
 > fetch: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz: Syntax error, command unrecognized
 
 >  >>> USER anonymous
 >  <<< 331 Please specify the password.
 >  >>> PASS root at h-ksn-hkg-fe-2.kaspersky-labs.com
 >  <<< 500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/ftp
 >  fetch: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz: Syntax error, command unrecognized
 
 This is how reply code 500 is defined in RFC 959:
 
 500	Syntax error, command unrecognized.
 	This may include errors such as command line too long.
 
 -- 
 Jaakko


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