EFS 1.6 bug: can't execute shell command on a cray

Edward Hartnett (ejh@larry.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Wed, 6 Apr 94 11:56:41 -0400 

Dear bug team:

I moved a tar file over to my cray account, then couldn't get it to
untar. I tried using the ! and entered the command, and got the error
listed below.

I changed my userid and machine name for security reasons, I hope
that's OK.

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 19.22.2 of Tue Nov 30 1993 on larry.gsfc.nasa.gov (hpux)
Package: efs

efs believes that the host type of cray11 is unix.

Contents of *ftp m1ej@cray11*:
Please edit sensitive or irrelevant information.
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open cray11
Connected to cray11.gsfc.nasa.gov.
220 cray11 FTP server (Version 5.3 Sun Aug 29 21:00:06 EDT 1993) ready.
quote user "m1ej"
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> 331 Password required for m1ej.
ftp> quote pass  Turtle Power!
230 User m1ej logged in.
ftp> hash
Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/hash mark).
ftp> quote pwd
257 "/u4/m1ej" is current directory.
quote syst
ftp> 215 UNIX Type: L8 Version: UNICOS 7.C.3
ftp> ls "-al /u4/m1ej/." /tmp/efsa15334
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /usr/ucb/ls.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> quote site idle
200 Current IDLE time limit is 900 seconds; max 7200
ftp> ls "-al /u4/m1ej/df_stuff/." /tmp/efsa15334
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /usr/ucb/ls.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> rename /u4/m1ej/df_stuff /u4/m1ej/old_df
350 File exists, ready for destination name
250 RNTO command successful.
ftp> ls "-dal /u4/m1ej/old_df" /tmp/efsa15334
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /usr/ucb/ls.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> quote site umask 22
200 UMASK set to 022 (was 027)
ftp> type image
200 Type set to I.
ftp> put /users/ejh/df_stuff/df.tar /u4/m1ej/df.tar
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for /u4/m1ej/df.tar.

226 Transfer complete.
839680 bytes sent in 4.62 seconds (177.30 Kbytes/s)
ftp> ls "-dal /u4/m1ej/df.tar" /tmp/efsa15334
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /usr/ucb/ls.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> 

current state:
==============
(setq
     efs-19-version "1.6/1.3"
     efs-auto-version "1.6/1.4"
     efs-cp-p-version "1.6/1.0"
     efs-cu-version "1.6/1.1"
     efs-defun-version "1.6/1.3"
     efs-dired-version "1.6/1.8"
     efs-netrc-version "1.6/1.0"
     efs-ovwrt-version "1.6/1.3"
     efs-report-version "1.5/1.1"
     efs-version "1.6/1.11"
     efs-36-bit-binary-file-name-regexp nil
     efs-anonymous-umask nil
     efs-auto-save 0
     efs-auto-save-remotely nil
     efs-backup-by-copying nil
     efs-binary-file-name-regexp "\\.\\([zZ]\\|gz\\|lzh\\|arc\\|zip\\|zoo\\|ta[rz]\\|dvi\\|ps\\|elc\\|gif\\|Z-part-..\\|tpz\\|exe\\|mpg\\|TZ[a-z]?\\)\\(~\\|~[0-9]+~\\)?$\\|\\.\\(ARC\\|ELC\\|TAGS\\|EXE\\|ZIP\\|DVI|ZOO\\|GIF\\)\\([.#;][0-9]+\\)?$"
     efs-buffer-name-case nil
     efs-compute-remote-buffer-file-truename nil
     efs-ding-on-chmod-failure t
     efs-ding-on-umask-failure t
     efs-disable-netrc-security-check nil
     efs-expire-ftp-buffers t
     efs-fancy-buffer-names "%s@%s"
     efs-ftp-buffer-expire-time nil
     efs-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v")
     efs-gateway-hash-mark-size nil
     efs-gateway-incoming-binary-hm-size nil
     efs-generate-anonymous-password t
     efs-hash-mark-size 1024
     efs-high-security-hosts nil
     efs-incoming-binary-hm-size nil
     efs-local-apollo-unix nil
     efs-ls-cache-max 5
     efs-make-backup-files '(unix sysV-unix bsd-unix next-unix apollo-unix dumb-unix super-dumb-unix)
     efs-max-ftp-buffer-size 3000
     efs-maximize-idle nil
     efs-message-interval 0
     efs-nlist-cmd "nlist"
     efs-nslookup-on-connect nil
     efs-nslookup-program "nslookup"
     efs-prompt-for-transfer-type nil
     efs-pty-check-retry-time 5
     efs-pty-check-threshold 1000
     efs-retry-time 5
     efs-root-umask nil
     efs-send-hash t
     efs-short-circuit-to-remote-root nil
     efs-suppress-abort-recursive-edit-and-then nil
     efs-umask nil
     efs-verbose t
     efs-verify-anonymous-modtime nil
     efs-verify-modtime-host-regexp ".*"
     efs-ftp-program-name "ftp"
     efs-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v")
     efs-local-host-regexp ".*"
     efs-ftp-local-host-regexp ".*"
     efs-gateway-host nil
     efs-smart-gateway nil
     efs-gateway-program "remsh"
     efs-gateway-program-args nil
     efs-gateway-program-interactive nil
     )