Help upgrading to 6.4 I have telnet,tivoweb access

[tibo]

well the other places fakecall did not work either... anyone have a solution to get fakecall working again with 6.4a and zippered drive??

Ok I checked the root file in /var/spool/cron/crontabs

# Run fakecall every night at 10:20pm cst
20 4 * * * tivosh /busybox/fakecall.tcl

now I see it there, I transfered alphawolfs fakecall.tcl to the right place /busybox

and I also telneted into the tivo and;
cd /busybox
tivosh fakecall.tcl
it replied fakecall.tcl by alphawolf_hk
"Call in" status updated.

so hopefully it runs automatic now... as for the 30 second skip

Originally Posted by sk33t3r

Screw it all I really want is the 30 second skip to be perm and twp, for taht I really dont need tweak

I have telnet, tivowebplus 2.1b2... how do you make this feature permanent... I was looking for code to insert into the cron root file, but I would love to make this permanent

[sk33t3r]

Originally Posted by tibo

well so far so good, however fakecall.tcl failed so I went to the other place and downloaded tytools and extracted fakecall.tcl from there and ftp'd to /busybox
rebooted and will see if that works as suggested elsewher on this forum...

I am not sure if it was that simple or if I am missing something????

Fake call really isnt needed anymore. Why are you concerned about it?

[tibo]

Originally Posted by sk33t3r

Fake call really isnt needed anymore. Why are you concerned about it?

as long as I dont get the NAG screen I am ok, but I did want to figure it out, I have a copy of alphawolfs fakecall.tcl in /busybox and one in /enhancenments
after I did tweak, it appears you need to copy over the fakecall.tcl and run
tivosh fakecall.tcl
to get it going... NOW to find a way to make the 30 second skip permanent... still looking for a way to do that

[zorro255]

Originally Posted by tibo

NOW to find a way to make the 30 second skip permanent... still looking for a way to do that

Rerun tweak.sh and let it download rbautch automatically.
This will set 30 second skip to start automatically.

If your still having trouble make a new Zipper Disc and rip the drive out and rerun zipper and tweak.sh.

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...d.php?t=250680

[sk33t3r]

Originally Posted by linrey

My HDVR2 was sent to be upgraded, and returned to me running 6.2a with networking and a bigger disk - many years ago. So all of this mumbo jumbo with 'cake' and 'zipper' is more than an old lady can handle.

An over-the-air update killed my locals, but after reading all of this, I'll just have to adapt to no local shows on my oldest DirecTivo. With all of this computer mastery on display, there's really no way to just "update" it over the internet to fix the locals? If there was such a service, I'd surely pay for it...

Sigh - I'm old now too, but not yet obsolete ;-)

It could be done via the internet but you would have to forward port 23 telnet access to the ip of your tivol

[tibo]

Originally Posted by zorro255

Rerun tweak.sh and let it download rbautch automatically.
This will set 30 second skip to start automatically.

If your still having trouble make a new Zipper Disc and rip the drive out and rerun zipper and tweak.sh.

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...d.php?t=250680

Thanks Zorro, I hope to not have to rip the drive out, but when I upgraded from 6.2a to 6.4a I did re-run tweak and it downloaded rbautch then, but the 30 second skip and fakecall did not work, so I found the work around to get fakecall working on 6.4a, but I will re-re-run tweak again to see if it works... I thought there was a 30 second skip and a few other hacks that you could install over tivowebplus??

[zorro255]

tibo, was your upgrade from slicer or cake?

[Hichhiker]

Originally Posted by tibo

Thanks Zorro, I hope to not have to rip the drive out, but when I upgraded from 6.2a to 6.4a I did re-run tweak and it downloaded rbautch then, but the 30 second skip and fakecall did not work, so I found the work around to get fakecall working on 6.4a, but I will re-re-run tweak again to see if it works... I thought there was a 30 second skip and a few other hacks that you could install over tivowebplus??

You need to find superpatch that specifically works for 6.4a - and run that - it will add the 30 sec skip and disable encryption. I bet the superpatch that is with your zipper disk is wrong version.

HTH

-HH

[tibo]

My upgrade was via slicer and I will try the super patch for 6.4a, i was looking at Hackman hack manager, but will FTP super patch and run, thanks guys

[bigjess]

Originally Posted by zorro255

I just used TivoWebPlus that came with the zipper then increased the sleep time to 90 and added the second sleep 90 before starting TivoWebPlus. This is all from a fresh install. Rebooted, Install Hackman, Rebooted, Install mfs_ftp, rebooted, var-symlink.sh, Rebooted. It is stable on all my tivo's. The reboots are extreme but it works.

#export HOSTNAME=Name
echo 'Sleep 90 for Web' | /enhancements/varhacks/hack/bin/out2osd -d3 &>/dev/null
sleep 90
echo 'Start Web' | /enhancements/varhacks/hack/bin/out2osd -d3 &>/dev/null
/TivoWebPlus/tivoweb

#############################################
# start crond after waiting 30 seconds
echo 'Sleep 90 for crond' | /enhancements/varhacks/hack/bin/out2osd -d3 &>/dev/null
sleep 90
echo 'Start crond' | /enhancements/varhacks/hack/bin/out2osd -d3 &>/dev/null
/busybox/crond

<More code>

echo 'Done' | /enhancements/varhacks/hack/bin/out2osd -d3 &>/dev/null

Thanks for the info Zorro225. I've tried all of this and well if your following my other thread, it still crashes and burns after a few days.

Two questions for you if I may:
1- what hardware (tivo's) are you using?
2- are you doing anything other than these hacks you list (bufferhack, etc.)?

Many thanks in advance.

[zorro255]

Bigjess, it sounds like you might have a bad hard drive. Get a new hard drive and try that. My tivo's are HDVR2 and SD-DVR, fyi.

If you have drivermonitor installed from the zipper run it and see the results.

/enhancements/drivemonitor.sh

[bigjess]

Originally Posted by zorro255

I just used TivoWebPlus that came with the zipper then increased the sleep time to 90 and added the second sleep 90 before starting TivoWebPlus. This is all from a fresh install. Rebooted, Install Hackman, Rebooted, Install mfs_ftp, rebooted, var-symlink.sh, Rebooted. It is stable on all my tivo's. The reboots are extreme but it works.

#export HOSTNAME=Name
echo 'Sleep 90 for Web' | /enhancements/varhacks/hack/bin/out2osd -d3 &>/dev/null
sleep 90
echo 'Start Web' | /enhancements/varhacks/hack/bin/out2osd -d3 &>/dev/null
/TivoWebPlus/tivoweb

#############################################
# start crond after waiting 30 seconds
echo 'Sleep 90 for crond' | /enhancements/varhacks/hack/bin/out2osd -d3 &>/dev/null
sleep 90
echo 'Start crond' | /enhancements/varhacks/hack/bin/out2osd -d3 &>/dev/null
/busybox/crond

<More code>

echo 'Done' | /enhancements/varhacks/hack/bin/out2osd -d3 &>/dev/null

Originally Posted by zorro255

Bigjess, it sounds like you might have a bad hard drive. Get a new hard drive and try that. My tivo's are HDVR2 and SD-DVR, fyi.

If you have drivermonitor installed from the zipper run it and see the results.

/enhancements/drivemonitor.sh

Zorro225-
Sorry, I should have mentioned I thought of that and checked it too. Drivemonitor says it's ok, SMART status is good, and I even ran spinrite on it while I had it out and it too said it's ok.

I'm pretty sure it's just the box being a SDDVR40. You mind saying what your boxes are? I'm in the mindset now of I need different hardware.

And did you bufferhack? Thanks in advance!

[Hichhiker]

Originally Posted by zorro255

Bigjess, it sounds like you might have a bad hard drive. Get a new hard drive and try that. My tivo's are HDVR2 and SD-DVR, fyi.

If you have drivermonitor installed from the zipper run it and see the results.

/enhancements/drivemonitor.sh

Zorro, this is a good thing to check, but in my case two of three boxes exhibited similar behavior with 6.4a and the drives were fine (first thing I checked)

BTW, a failing power supply will sometimes look EXACTLY like a drive failure. A while back I went through 3 drives on one of my tivos before I realized it was a power supply. If you want to check, get an external power supply for IDE disks (comes with many IDE to USB adaptors) and run the drive off of that. If your problems go away, your power supply is dying. Luckily there are plenty of cheap S2 DTivos to buy for parts.

But either way, you will see drive errors in your logs - which was not happening in my case. I suspect there is some issue with 6.4a and MFS upgraded via certain versions of mfs tools. Similar issue happened to some people upgrading standalones to 7.something - and it only hit people who used PTV instantcake originally with a large drive.

-HH

[zorro255]

I was going to suggest the power supply next just that a new hard drive is easier to check and install.

Other then installing a clean version of 6.4a from instantcake after swapping the power supply I cannot guess what’s wrong. Check the power supply first before you give up on the unite. Odds are good it's a dying power supply if the hd is good.

fyi, I have bufferhack running and the tivo's are sd-dvr40’s.

[bigjess]

Originally Posted by zorro255

I was going to suggest the power supply next just that a new hard drive is easier to check and install.

Other then installing a clean version of 6.4a from instantcake after swapping the power supply I cannot guess what’s wrong. Check the power supply first before you give up on the unite. Odds are good it's a dying power supply if the hd is good.

fyi, I have bufferhack running and the tivo's are sd-dvr40’s.

this just further boggles my mind. yours are running fine, i've done the exact same hacks with the same software and after a few days after it does some recordings it just goes to pot.

i did suspect the power supply initially, but i looked at it, and there are no bulging capacitors, so i didn't think that would be it, especially since it was perfectly fine on 6.2a and all these problems started (and have been the same) on 6.4a but i'm willing to try anything, is there a specific test on the power supply other than swapping it?

[zorro255]

I had a tivo that ran fine then one day it just said “Welcome powering up” till I unplugged it. Power was going to the motherboard but not enough power was going to the hard drive. So the hard drive wouldn’t turn on. Or sometimes it would just show a blank screen after a while. For a test (or while your waiting for the new tivo power supply) plug the hard drive into a external power source while the external source is off. Plug the tivo unit in then turn on the power supply for the hard drive on.

Also one of the SD-DVR40 power supplies went bad during the upgrade from 6.2a to 6.4a. I had just unplugged the power, then I wanted to check something and it won’t turn on. All I had done was unplug the power supplie while still running 6.2a and plugged it back in. No hacking, no instantcake. And the power supply just went out during the upgrades. I swapped the power supplies with another unite and all was good.

[bigjess]

Originally Posted by zorro255

I had a tivo that ran fine then one day it just said “Welcome powering up” till I unplugged it. Power was going to the motherboard but not enough power was going to the hard drive. So the hard drive wouldn’t turn on. Or sometimes it would just show a blank screen after a while. For a test (or while your waiting for the new tivo power supply) plug the hard drive into a external power source while the external source is off. Plug the tivo unit in then turn on the power supply for the hard drive on.

Also one of the SD-DVR40 power supplies went bad during the upgrade from 6.2a to 6.4a. I had just unplugged the power, then I wanted to check something and it won’t turn on. All I had done was unplug the power supplie while still running 6.2a and plugged it back in. No hacking, no instantcake. And the power supply just went out during the upgrades. I swapped the power supplies with another unite and all was good.

That is maddening. Well, this gives me hope that it's the supply and not some other hack or screwy setting somewhere that is just messin with me to make my life h311. Supplies are being sold straight on ebay as tested, so I've ordered one. I'm going to rezipper the drive but wait for the power supply until I start it up again. If that doesn't do it, I am truly at a loss. I'll post back in a few days. As always, THANKS!

[tibo]

well that was difficult... I downloaded superpatch_6.4a_crashHD.tcl and had a hell of a time trying to ftp it over to tivo... only would let me put it in /var/hack , everything else just kept saying check permissions, but I couldt ftp any other file, but this one...
so after getting it to var/hack I ran the file
./superpatch_6.4a_crashHD.tcl and it appears to have patched everythign I needed

thanks guys... I am thinking its time to upgrade to the new HD tivo, but is there any hacks or anything that can be done to enable features or customize the thr-22 yet?

[zorro255]

Originally Posted by tibo

... check permissions, but I couldt ftp any other file, but this one...
so after getting it to var/hack I ran the file

You need to mount your tivo as ReadWrite.

mount -o remount,rw /

or

rw

[bigjess]

Originally Posted by bigjess

That is maddening. Well, this gives me hope that it's the supply and not some other hack or screwy setting somewhere that is just messin with me to make my life h311. Supplies are being sold straight on ebay as tested, so I've ordered one. I'm going to rezipper the drive but wait for the power supply until I start it up again. If that doesn't do it, I am truly at a loss. I'll post back in a few days. As always, THANKS!

Well, I'm back. Wish I could say it worked. It hasn't. Got a new (used) power supply from ebay, very clean, threw it in with a reimaged drive via zipper (for the million'eth time) and crossed my fingers. The thing is rebooting like crazy now. Sometimes it makes it to a live picture and then reboots, sometimes it doesn't even make it that far. Totally at a loss. The drive checked out ok with the healthchecker, it's SMART status is ok, and Spinrite said it was a'ok.

So at this point, it's the box itself, the software, the hard drive, or the power supply. Ya, that narrows it down! Trying to have a sense of humor on this but it's really not funny.

Is it possible to have just gotten another bad power supply? After I decided to replace the power supply, I actually stumbled on this post (deal database com/forum/showthread.php?64215-Tivo-HD-stuck-at-quot-Welcome!-Powering-up-quot&p=310659#post310659) and that was EXACTLY what mine was doing. So I figured new (working pull) power supply and I'm golden. However now it's worse. Rebootin and freezing like crazy. I should note that this new supply is really clean, no capacitors bulging, etc, but it's a working pull according to the seller, not tested with a oscilloscope/meter/etc. I don't have a spare box or HD to swap in to rule them out, otherwise I would. I don't have a external HD power supply, otherwise I'd have like to tried that idea to rule out the power supply. Time to waive the white flag?

[zorro255]

Originally Posted by bigjess

Well, I'm back.

Try just imagining the drive without any hacks so it is a clean non hacked TiVo. Let us know what happens.

[bigjess]

Originally Posted by zorro255

Try just imagining the drive without any hacks so it is a clean non hacked TiVo. Let us know what happens.

So this is going to be one of my long winded posts. But I think I'm finally on to something. I had been toying with going back to 6.2a with all the hacks to determine for sure if it was the new software, or some part of the hardware. Well, I installed 6.2a last night via zipper as I had done years prior, found all the old hacks, reloaded, twp/buffer/mfs_ftp/etc!, and bingo, instant fix. Well instant stability. It went from the vicious reboot cycle since the new power supply to being able to watch tv and record. Now granted it's been less than 24 hours and I haven't loaded the new season passes (which on the old power supply would be when it would start the craziness) but it wasn't instantly rebooting and freezing like crazy which it started after the new power supply and reimaging 6.4a via zipper.

So all these problems are somehow related to 6.4a, but I still think the power supply may be playing a part.

Ok, now on to your suggestion Zorro225 about a clean nonhacked 6.4a. This was something else that I was going to do, do the actual instantcake install of 6.4a and then see if it's stable. Which is tonight's project. But here's where I think I may (hopefully) have found why 6.4a isn't working for me, but is working for you...on identical hardware. I reread this post of yours again:

Originally Posted by zorro255;

Steps I took.

1. Running 6.2a I install MFS_FTP in /enhancements/varhacks/mfs_ftp (been running for years actually)
2. Backed up All my shows to the computer using MFS_FTP using a FTP client
a.MFT_FTP is key for Movieloader. So get it running in 6.2a first.
b.If your new to MFS_FTP transfer the TMF files ONLY.
3. Move your MFS_FTP folder to your computer for easy reinstalling or make the folder a .tar file. (You will thank yourself later)
4. Image the Tivo with cake. (one TiVo got a harddrive size increase.)
5. “Cleared and Deleted every thing”
a. They say it is not needed but does no harm (you choose)
6. Follow the on screen instructions for the Satellite.
7. Follow the on screen instructions for the Phone
8. Force a Call in then reboot.

Up to now it is an unhacked Tivo

Now for the Zipper.

1. Grab a Superpatch that will work with 6.4a from the other site.
2. Rip the drive out again.
3. Zipper it up
4. Install the drive
5. Rebooted twice like normal
6. Run tweak. DO NOT REBOOT.
7. DO NOT REBOOT The next steps might be issues that should go on the Zippers and rbautch threads.
I am making a note hear for those who have not upgraded and want to quickly get MRV function and locals back. Sometimes TiVo reboots during acquiring signal after running tweak. My solution is simple.

So I was thoroughly confused about this, because your using instantcake to install the image, but then your zippering, which (as I thought originally) was wiping the drive AND reinstalling the image. Which I thought is redundant. How would that have an effect on anything cause the zipper completely wipes the drive to reinstall the image you extract from the instantcake disc. Which coincidently is how I've been reimaging the drive every time it goes crazy, pull it out, throw it in the comp, run the zipper, have it install the image AND zipper that image, throw it back in the tivo, run tweak, install the other hacks, and finally wait for it to crash.

But after re-reading things, and your suggestion just to instantcake it by itself, I think I figured out what your doing. Your using instantcake to install the image virgin, no hacks, etc. THEN you pull it out and run zipper, however when it asks you if you want to install the image it found on the disc, you say NOOOOOOO and just let it zipper the image already on the drive (that instantcake previously installed)??????

Is that correct? Say I'm right and I TOTALLY haven't lost my mind If that's the way your doing it, then I'd say the zipper can't install the 6.4a image correctly somehow and that's why all my installs aren't working and yours did (atleast that's what I'm praying)!

THANKS in advance!

[zorro255]

Originally Posted by bigjess

Say I'm right and I TOTALLY haven't lost my mind If that's the way your doing it, then I'd say the zipper can't install the 6.4a image correctly somehow and that's why all my installs aren't working and yours did (atleast that's what I'm praying)!

Your right you havn't lost your mind. I use instantecake to install the image. I don't have any image on my zipper disc so zipper just skips that step. With so much trouble I would recommend doing a "Clear and Delete Everything" after you install the image.

5. “Cleared and Deleted every thing” 
6. Follow the on screen instructions for the Satellite.
7. Follow the on screen instructions for the Phone
8. Force a Call in then reboot.

Run step 8 a few times since you are having trouble. It should not have an effect but you never know. The first call in takes about 30 minutes to download the 2nd and 3rd calls should not take much time.

Originally Posted by bigjess

then I'd say the zipper can't install the 6.4a image correctly somehow

I wouldn't go that far just I had minnor problems in the past with 6.2a (less then you are having know) and this was a simple solution.

[bigjess]

Originally Posted by zorro255

Your right you havn't lost your mind. I use instantecake to install the image. I don't have any image on my zipper disc so zipper just skips that step. With so much trouble I would recommend doing a "Clear and Delete Everything" after you install the image.

5. “Cleared and Deleted every thing” 
6. Follow the on screen instructions for the Satellite.
7. Follow the on screen instructions for the Phone
8. Force a Call in then reboot.

Run step 8 a few times since you are having trouble. It should not have an effect but you never know. The first call in takes about 30 minutes to download the 2nd and 3rd calls should not take much time.


I wouldn't go that far just I had minnor problems in the past with 6.2a (less then you are having know) and this was a simple solution.

Well I'm back. I was ready to say that all the problems were because the zipper was installing the image. NOPE!

So, I pulled the drive and instantcake'd it, put it back in, cleared and deleted, ran guided setup, phoned in three times (first one took forever, last two were real quick), then pulled the drive and zippered it up (with a brand new zipper disk made without the image), rebooted, ran tweak, edited author file to add the 90 second delays (and i'm not starting mfs_ftp in the author file btw), rebooted, hackman, rebooted, bufferhack, rebooted, mfs_ftp, rebooted, var-symlinks, rebooted finally. At that point I had the hacks, TWP was working, and i could see live tv. That was all early saturday morning. I didn't put in any season passes or do any recording, just let it sit. able to watch tv fine.

Sunday evening, I put in all my season passes via the remote, not TWP. It built the season pass list and started recording like crazy.

Today, right on schedule basically, it starts freezing with the red light on and I can't telnet or use the remote. Pull the power cord, plug it back in, it'll either reboot a bunch of times and then finally freeze with a picture, or just boot up, show a picture and then eventually freeze.

I am totally at the end of my proverbial rope.

I think as a last ditch effort I'm going to instantcake it again, and just that, and then see what it does. But it's really useless to me without the hacks, so not sure what I'm going to do.

I am just at such a loss. I wish I could figure out what's going wrong. I wish I knew what errors it was spitting and where to look, but I can't make heads or tails of the TWP logs.

[zorro255]

This is going to sound crazy for what I think you should do. Check the tuners (particularly tuner 2) by turning to channel 201 on both tuners and see if it’s blocky.

Turn to channel 201 if its blocky then you can stop if not change this tuner to other channel, 202 will do. 
Then hit “Live TV” change this tuner to 201 check if blocky.

This is only a test not a solution. If it is blocky on 201 you might have a bad tuner which could be causing you the problem. Repeat the guide setup for 1 line in instead of 2 see if it freezes.

[gsjenkins]

I hope y'all don't think I am hi-jacking the thread. This issues does deal with upgrading to 6.4a. Last Monday the lost locals problem finally made it to east Texas. I was crossing my fingers that we would get skipped... Ha. As I have been following the forums and knew what to expect, I was prepared. I had downloaded the slices for each of my three DTivos. I bought and used slicer to install the 6.4a upgrade to each and it worked fine. Locals came back immediately without a 721 call or anything. I ran the 6.4a superpatch and then re-ran tweak. Still no problems. Then I ran bufferhack11j. This patched tivoapp just fine, but it replaced a 22 meg tivoapp file with another 22 meg tivoapp file. I noticed /dev/hda4 went from about 25 megs free to 2.8 megs free. I don't understand. There isn't a backup version of tivoapp, so replacing size for size should have changed the free space on root by nothing. I rebooted and checked again and still only 2.8 megs free. All the DTivos aren't exactly the same. I had one that I just happened to notice didn't properly patch the tivoapp. I got no errors. What happened was that the drive completely filled up and the tivoapp file was only a few megs in size. I had to delete anything I thought I could do without to free up enough space to copy the bufferhack backup tivoapp to tvbin/ . Anyone have any idea where all the free space went when I was only copying like for like files?

Thanks for any info y'all can provide.

[Captain 80s]

Made a tar of the folder of what turned out to be a successful install of mfs_ftp. FTP'd to my computer. FTP'd it to /enhancements/varhacks and unpacked it on a new unit. No problems here, it created the mfs_ftp folder and looks exactly like the one it was created from on the working unit.

But when I go to apply the patches in the folder I get:
Hunk #1 FAILED at 14.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 295.
(list continues thru #18)
18 out of 18 Hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file mfs_ftp.tcl.rej

What's my problem? I'm pretty damn good at installing mfs_ftp by now, but this would be SOOOO much easier.

btw... it works pretty damn good. Wife said, "I thought we lost MRV capability?" Transfer speed was great, even started to watch it while it was still transferring just to see what would happen. No problems this time, it just messes with the progress bar of the "recording".

[CrashHD]

Originally Posted by gsjenkins

Then I ran bufferhack11j. This patched tivoapp just fine, but it replaced a 22 meg tivoapp file with another 22 meg tivoapp file. I noticed /dev/hda4 went from about 25 megs free to 2.8 megs free. I don't understand. There isn't a backup version of tivoapp, so replacing size for size should have changed the free space on root by nothing. I rebooted and checked again and still only 2.8 megs free. All the DTivos aren't exactly the same. I had one that I just happened to notice didn't properly patch the tivoapp. I got no errors. What happened was that the drive completely filled up and the tivoapp file was only a few megs in size. I had to delete anything I thought I could do without to free up enough space to copy the bufferhack backup tivoapp to tvbin/ . Anyone have any idea where all the free space went when I was only copying like for like files?

superpatch and bufferhack don't copy "like for like" files.

They cannot do their work on the tivoapp file while the file is open (tivoapp running). The way they get around this is to move that open file from "tivoapp" to something else, like "tivoapp.original" or "tivoapp.tmp".

Once that file is out of the way, a copy is made, named "tivoapp". Now you have an open file (the running tivoapp) named "tivoapp.tmp", and a file that is just sitting there, named "tivoapp". Bufferhack and superpatch can work on that file, since it is not open and running.

When the tivo reboots, it loads "tivoapp" (the one that was just created and patched/bufferhacked), and the moved/renamed copy from the previous boot is just left laying around, taking up space.

In effect, everytime you run superpatch, or bufferhack, you make another copy of tivoapp that is just left cluttering your drive.

You can delete all but the one you are using. Look in /tvbin. Don't delete the wrong one, it will make your tivo sad.

[CrashHD]

Originally Posted by Captain 80s

What's my problem? I'm pretty damn good at installing mfs_ftp by now, but this would be SOOOO much easier.

mfs_ftp was a great program in it's time, but it suffers greatly from lack of maintenance. I have tried a number of times to get it to work, with results ranging from mixed to poor. I would give up and move on. Look on ddb for tyftpd. It works. out of the box. Recent reports indicate it is now working with movieloader as well.

[Captain 80s]

Originally Posted by CrashHD

mfs_ftp was a great program in it's time, but it suffers greatly from lack of maintenance. I have tried a number of times to get it to work, with results ranging from mixed to poor. I would give up and move on. Look on ddb for tyftpd. It works. out of the box. Recent reports indicate it is now working with movieloader as well.

Actually, I have been monitoring the progress of tyftpd and will probably do some experimenting with it.

But I am not having a problem with mfs_ftp. If I manually install it, it is working great for me on 3 boxes. My question was really just about making a tar of the working folder and pushing that to a new build to save time. But, I only have one box left to do anyway.