From: "S. Robert James" <srobertjames@...>
Date: 2007-01-24T11:10:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Does Ruby's FTP lib have a ghostly bug?



On Jan 23, 8:41 pm, Jamey Cribbs <jcri...@netpromi.com> wrote:
> S. Robert James wrote:
> > Sometimes when using Ruby's FTP lib, I get this weird error:
> > #<EOFError: end of file reached>I have 50+ ftp scripts that run daily.  I only get this error on one of
> those scripts, which, like you observed in a later email, moves a bunch
> of files every time it runs, one after another.  I put a counter in the
> script and I found that it consistently bombed out after moving the 60th
> file, i.e. I always got this error when it was attempting to move file
> number 61.

It sounds like this is a bug in ftp.rb.  Can you confirm that the ftp
host doesn't display this problem when accessed via other means (eg
another language).