Filezilla was the hosting site's suggestion<div>when all the dust settled.</div><div><br></div><div>The OS on their end is <pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">CentOS 4.9
Pure-FTPD </pre>Not sure what "Pure-FTPD" means, but</div><div>probably basic ftp.</div><div><br></div><div>I pretty much knew they couldn't do</div><div>anything about the basic situation, since</div><div>
I'd guess CentOS uses the same basic</div><div>ftp package every other distribution uses.</div><div>At least at the level of a the basic service</div><div>that I have. </div><div><br></div><div>The better solution would be to have</div>
<div>an ssh connection, but at the lowest </div><div>levels of service this doesn't seem to be</div><div>an option. Another order of magnitude,</div><div>or even two, of byte limit for globbing </div><div>would be nice in today's world. Richard</div>
<div>Stallman argued 30 years ago that </div><div>machine's should have full word lengths</div><div>as limits, not the silly, arbitrary limits </div><div>that people often in fact use.</div><div><br></div><div>Today that would mean essentially </div>
<div>unlimited, but of course his appeal didn't</div><div>take, and so we have silly little issues</div><div>like this one.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>
</div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Robert Citek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert.citek@gmail.com" target="_blank">robert.citek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Not sure what the issue is, but a possible solution may be to use<br>
Filezilla as your FTP client:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://forum.bplaced.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20662" target="_blank">http://forum.bplaced.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20662</a><br>
<br>
Good luck and let us know how things go.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
- Robert<br>
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On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> It happens at the level of one file.<br>
> e.g., if I use "ls zz*" for the file zz.jpg<br>
> I get a globbing error. Using "ls zz.jpg,"<br>
> I get the usual result.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> -- Bob<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:49 AM, <<a href="mailto:scott.tanner@comcast.net">scott.tanner@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I haven't seen that particular error, but it sounds like the "list too<br>
>> long" error I see in CentOS at times. Do you see this error on any<br>
>> wildcard matching, or just when the wildcard matches a large number of files<br>
>> ( ie "rm *" versus "rm exact_filename.tx?" ) ?<br>
>><br>
>> If its matching a large number of files, try piping through xargs:<br>
>><br>
>> ls files2del* | xargs -i rm {}<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Regards,<br>
>> Scott<br>
>><br>
>> ________________________________<br>
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>> To: "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area."<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</a>><br>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 9:34:52 AM<br>
>> Subject: [GRLUG] globbing<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> I've recently encountered an issue<br>
>> with globbing on my web hosting site.<br>
>><br>
>> The problem is that any attempt to<br>
>> use wild cards when I try to, for example,<br>
>> delete a bunch of files on the hosting site<br>
>> results in an error saying "out of memory<br>
>> while globbing."<br>
>><br>
>> In parenthesis it then suggests "This probably<br>
>> means 'Permission denied.' "<br>
>><br>
>> Permission to glob?<br>
>><br>
>> I can, for example, delete files one at a time,<br>
>> by typing in the entire name - i.e., no wild cards.<br>
>><br>
>> Nor does it appear to have to do with the<br>
>> number of files - no globbing even with one file.<br>
>><br>
>> Any suggestions here?<br>
>><br>
>> I'll ask the web host provider as well....<br>
>><br>
>> -- Bob<br>
>><br>
>><br>
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