There were some DoS protections added which limit the number of results that can be returned from a glob, it is to do with total filename lengths iirc. I see this a lot in package snapshot directories. If you want something good that will handle more files, try pureftpd (it's in ports).
On 2011-12-26, STeve Andre' <and...@msu.edu> wrote: > I have an old FTP machine (3.6!) that a horde of people are > suckling from at the moment. I'm making a new one remotely, > but found that an 'mget *' on the new machine fails, with no > such file. There are 515 files in the dir; the 3.6 system expands > the mget, and the newer 4.9-current doesn't. > > I don't see anything in the ftpd man page about this. Was > this a change, or did I miss something? I've currently got 110 > people feeding from a 128M machine and would like to put > this larger machine into service right now. ;-) > > Thanks! > > --STeve Andre'
