Re: {bb} how can ftp be an "unknown directive"?

[Philip Clark <pcclark@tiscali.co.uk>]

The most common cause of this is editing bb-hosts with on a Windoze
machine or with a dodgy editor that leaves control characters in
there, which are not normally displayed. Moving bb-hosts with "ftp"
in ascii mode can also cause problems.

The first thing to do is to load it into "vi" and look for anything
abnormal. Note that all directives for a particular host need to be
on a single line.

Cheers, Phil.



On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 20:21, Francis Hwang wrote:
> I posted this a while back and got no response ... thought I'd ask 
> again in case some helpful soul might have missed it the first time 
> around.
> 
> I'm trying to setup Big Brother, the server seems to be okay, but when 
> I'm working on client and run etc/bbchkhosts.sh I get:
> 
> bb-hosts: "66.240.185.230 idx164.idx.net # BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY ftp 
> pop3 http://idx164.idx.net smtp"
>          -- unknown directive (ftp)
> 
> bb-hosts: "66.240.185.230 idx164.idx.net # BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY ftp 
> pop3 http://idx164.idx.net smtp"
>          -- unknown directive (pop3)
> 
> bb-hosts: "66.240.185.230 idx164.idx.net # BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY ftp 
> pop3 http://idx164.idx.net smtp"
>          -- unknown directive (smtp)
> 
> How is this possible? Isn't ftp one of the standard services to check?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Francis


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