On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:30:28PM +1100, Benno wrote: > ok, I decided I would try gnu arch, but I'm having problems :) > > I run: > > % tla make-archive [EMAIL PROTECTED] sftp://cse/home/benjl/archives > Failure > % > > Now if I sftp cse and do "ls /home/benjl/archives" it works fine. > > So, any idea what the problem is or how to make tla just a little bit more > chatty about why it might be failing?
I see Robert's already solved your problem, but I did a little more digging into this when it happened to me about a week ago. The problem is that OpenSSH's sftp-server module only has intelligent messages for a small number of error conditions on the file-system, and for everything else it just reports "Failure". One case that seems to suffer from this is trying to create a directory that already exists, which is what happened to you (and me). tla is just reporting the message passed to it from the server (although it would be nice if reported the operation that it was attempting at the time, for situations when the server's error isn't enough). Some keen person should probably write patches for OpenSSH and tla to fix this... ;) At least, that's what the problem looks like to me :) -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
