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Hi again,

first of all thanks for you help on my last problem, the problem is solved now.

But I have many problem
This time, I transfered a big file, ~3,5 GByte, with ftp from a Sun machine to a linux box, RedHat 7.3. But the file recieved on the Linux Box is corrupt, with smaller files there is no problem, I tested it with a 130 MB file.

On the Linux Box I am using the default wu-ftpd server, with default configuration.
Only the server timeout was set by me to 24h.

thnx and best regards
Alex

What type of file is this large file? Are you using the correct file transfer type (ascii versus image)? What version of Solaris?

Is the ftp completing or failing while transmitting?

Is it stopping at exactly 2GB? This could also be a large file problem.

Hi,

The file transfer runs without error messages, only afer the finished transfer you see a broken file.

The files are data files, and the sun system is SunOS 5.8.

We are using binary mode with ftp.

Alex

Is the filesize the same on both systems after the ftp is completed? if not how much are you missing?

If its the same filesize try using md5 sums to ensure that its really corrupt on the linux box so you dont have any other strange problems?

Just a tought..

/Peter

- No the corruption of the file is not anytime at the same place.

- The filesize has on both, the source and destination the same size, when you check the file with md5 you can see that the files are different.

- If you look into the file, using a hex editor, you see a lot of zeros or parts of other files in the corrupt file.

I had a problem just like that once.. the strange thing that we found was that the disk was broken. fsck didnt report any errors..(If you havent runned fsck on the disk you should try that) but if we did a copy of the corrupted file and did a md5 check against the original it didnt match.. that was one wierd problem.. You could give it a try.. copy the file to the same disk under a diffrent name an d md5 check it.. or make the sun ftp the file to another disk on the linux box and see if the file still gets corrupted.

sounds like you have a corrupt disk..
/Peter