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19990818: denied gempak access?

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  • Subject: 19990818: denied gempak access?
  • Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:06:25 -0600
>From: Chris Hennon <address@hidden>
>Organization: Ohio State
>Keywords: 199908182309.RAA14211 GEMPAK FTP

Chris,

Chiz is on vacation for the next week or so, so I am jumping in to
(hopefully) help out.

>Hey, what's up?  I enjoyed your workshop.  I've got LDM loaded on my new
>machine and am all set to get gempak.  The only problem is when I try to
>get it from the ftp site, I am denied.  I used the login and the
>password you gave me at the workshop.  The file I'm trying to get is
>"/nawips-5.4/gempak54upc_pl6.tar.Z".  I get "permission denied".  Thanks
>for any info.  I'm eager to get this thing installed.

Are you sure that the directory that you are trying to FTP to is writable
by you?  The permission denied error is most likely coming from your
machine, not from the Unidata FTP site.  The fact that you can connect
up to the FTP directory and list the contents (true?) and the fact
that the permissions on the file are:

536093 -rw-r--r--   1 ustaff   41976237 Apr  8 1998  gempak54upc_pl6.tar.Z

read to world tells me that you should be able to FTP the file.  In order
to test this out, I just logged onto one of our sites machines and FTPed
back to Unidata and FTPed nawips-5.4/gempak54upc_pl6.tar.Z:

ftp ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
<user>
<pass>
cd nawips-5.4
bin
get gempak54upc_pl6.tar.Z

Try making sure that you can create a file in your destination directory:

cd <wherever>
touch xxx

If the touch works, there is some other problem; if it fails, you don't
have write permission.

Tom Yoksas