On Monday, 02/21/2005 at 02:24 CST, Tom Duerbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in the mist of trying to test out the transfer of a large FTP. The > server is Suse 9.0 and the client is Windows/XP. > > I can FTP small stuff (a few MBs), but when I try to FTP a large 3 GB > file, I get: > > in.ftpd: tar04.tar.Z: Value too large for defined data type > > Both MAN and INFO don't shed any light on this restriction, or if it can > be removed. Is there an actual size restriction, or just a "suggested" > restriction?
This error is mentioned a lot in various Linux venues. It happens when the app isn't enabled for > 2GB. Try a different FTP app. It's likely that the ftp client is issuing a SIZE directive and the server or client can't deal with it. (Looks like the server in your case.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
