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WJClancey · Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 4

After installing wview successfully in Mac OS 10.4 (but not running it yet), I moved on to preparing for ftp.

I followed instructions for installing tnftp, but now have no ftp at all. I've spent about 3 hours on this. I have no Unix experience since the late 1970s when we were running DEC mainframes, and would appreciate any help.

1. started by running /usr/bin/ftp --> indicated version was not tnftp, so I proceeded with tnftp installation.

2. followed instructions given in the user manual "Setting up FTP Transfers"); did not find /usr/kerberos...
Trying to run ftp via "/usr/bin/ftp" now produces "-bash: /usr/bin/ftp: No such file or directory"

3. I've removed tnftp-20050625 folder several times and retried installation in different ways with "./configure --prefix=/opt/local" and searching for ftp in /usr/bin, /usr/local, /opt/local. All I find are an ftp folder in wview-1.9.0 and ftp.o inside this folder. I found directions on internet to copy tnftp-20050625 folder to /tmp and do make, but that didn't help.

4. I'm not sure it happened the first time, but "sudo make install" returns "make: `install' is up to date."

5. last logged line in "sudo make" is
gcc -g -O2 -L../libedit -L../libnetbsd -o ftp cmds.o cmdtab.o complete.o domacro.o fetch.o ftp.o main.o progressbar.o ruserpass.o util.o -ledit -ledit -ltermcap -lnetbsd

That looks encouraging, as it mentions ftp.

6. After some attempts yesterday, I had these two pointers in /usr/bin:
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Dec 17 18:10 ftp -> /opt/local/bin/ftp
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Dec 17 17:53 ftp-old -> /usr/local/bin/ftp

ftp pointer looks fine, but there is no file or directory /opt/local/bin/ftp.
ftp-old pointer is odd, as I thought the file ftp-old would have been moved, rather than pointing to a file that does not exist.

I can send full log of .configure etc. if you wish.

I did spend about an hour also reading many posts here, but decided it is time to ask for help.

Bill

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

Execute "sudo whereis ftp" - this should tell you where ftp is found on the root path.

If nothing there:
cd /
find . -name "ftp*" -print

This should print out where all files/directories named ftp<something> are found.

tnftp (named ftp) is installed somewhere, you just have to find it and create your link properly in /usr/bin...

Mark

WJClancey · Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 4

Mark,

Thanks, I found it in ./private/tmp/tnftp-20050625/src

Bill

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

You may want to copy it out of there to /usr/bin instead of linking it there - that looks like a temporary directory that might get "cleaned up" later.

It looks like you never executed the "make install", that's why it is sitting in your build directory. Copying it to /usr/bin will do the trick.

Have fun!
Mark

WJClancey · Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 4

Mark,

Okay, good, I was thinking something else needed to get reset when I repeated the installations. After each ./configure & make, "sudo make install" kept returning "make: `install' is up to date." (Each time I started by trashing the tnftp-20050625 folder and rexpanding the gz file.)

Should I have specified the "--prefix=/opt/local" option for ./configure?

Bill

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

Sure, you could have done that. It really doesn't matter where it is installed as long as it isn't a temp folder and you link to it in /usr/bin (or just copy the binary to /usr/bin).

Mark