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Turbonet and Tivoftpd
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Posted by: Mobius60

I just installed a Turbonet card in my Series 1 Tivo and everything works except Tivoftpd. I can telnet, use Tivoweb, get daily updates. I followed Steve Jenkins procedures and was wondering about the difference between tivoftpd and tivoftpd.ppc. He says to remove the extension, but when I try to run it on the tivo, I get "cannnot run binaries", or something to that effect. Should I try using tivoftpd.ppc instead?

Posted by: Spire

Since your TiVo recorder is a Series 1, you must use tivoftpd.ppc. But you'll probably want to rename it to tivoftpd.

Posted by: Mobius60

Spire,
That's the version of tivoftpd I tried. But after I rename tivoftpd.ppc to just tivoftpd, I try to run it in telnet and I get "cannot run binaries". That's why I was wondering if I could keep the .ppc extension and run it that way.

Posted by: Spire

The actual name of the file shouldn't matter; either tivoftpd.ppc or tivoftpd will work, as long as it's the correct file (and has the correct permissions set).

Is it possible that there's another incorrect version of tivoftpd file somewhere on your PATH that's being run instead? What is the output of the following command?

code:
type tivoftpd

It should match the location that you're trying to run tivoftpd from.

What is the exact command that you're using to run tivoftpd? Are you using an explicit path (e.g., ./tivoftpd), or are you relying on the PATH?

Posted by: Mobius60

Spire,

I'm using Steve Jenkins guide to install Tivoftpd:

cd /var/hack [ENTER]

/var/hack/bin/ls –l [ENTER]

mv tivoftpd /var/hack/bin [ENTER]

cd bin [ENTER]

chmod 755 tivoftpd

./tivoftpd [ENTER]

When I type ./tivoftpd, I get an error message that says "cannot run binary files". Does the tivoftpd file have to have no extension or can I use tivoftpd.ppc? I'm not near the tivo now so I can't try the "type tivoftpd" command you mentioned.

Posted by: Spire

The reason you're seeing that error is that you copied over the wrong version of tivoftpd. You need to copy over tivoftpd.ppc instead. You will also want to rename it to tivoftpd.

If you rename the tivoftpd.ppc file to tivoftpd before you copy it over to the TiVo recorder, then you can just follow the exact steps you posted (easy).

Otherwise, you'll have to do the renaming on the TiVo recorder itself. One way to do that is to replace the mv command above with the following command:

code:
mv tivoftpd.ppc /var/hack/bin/tivoftpd

In either case, note that you do have to go through those steps again, but making sure to use the correct tivoftpd.ppc file.

Posted by: Mobius60

Spire,

I am using tivoftpd.ppc downloaded from:

http://tivo.stevejenkins.com/downloads/

I renamed it to tivoftpd (with no extension) before copying it to the tivo, according to steve jenkins procedure. When I use the procedure I previously quoted is when I get the error message.

Posted by: Spire

Perplexing.

Have you considered the possibility that the file might have gotten corrupted at some point (probably during the transfer to the TiVo recorder)?

How exactly did you get the file over? If you copied it over by mounting the TiVo hard drive on your PC, you might need to do that again. (Or you could use something like http_get to save yourself the trouble. I'd suggest Zmodem, but that doesn't work well over telnet.)

If you have ls installed on the TiVo unit, you can use that to check the file size of tivoftpd. It should be exactly 45016 bytes; if you see a different size, then it's definitely corrupted. If you see the correct size, that's still no guarantee that the file is intact.

Posted by: Mobius60

I've connected the drive to my computer a couple of times now, transferring the file that way. I think I will try an http_get using this address I found in the forum and copy it directly to the tivo:

http://152.2.210.121/sourceforge/ti...tivoftpd.ppc.gz

It seems to be a good link. I think I may also try running tivoftpd with the .ppc extension intact.

Posted by: Spire

Hey, that link looks familiar. :)

Don't forget to unzip and rename the file after downloading it. Here's the complete set of commands you'll need to to download and install the file:

code:http_get -t 180 -D /var/hack/bin -T 0 -C 0 -U http://152.2.210.121:80/sourceforge/tivoutils/tivoftpd.ppc.gz -sd
cd /var/hack/bin
gzip -d tivoftpd.ppc.gz
mv tivoftpd.ppc tivoftpd
chmod 755 tivoftpd

Posted by: Mobius60

Thanks Spire, I'll give that a try and let you know if I have any success.

Posted by: Mobius60

Spire,

The http_get was unsuccessful, but I reconnected the tivo drive to my computer and copied tivoftpd. I copied it as tivoftpd.ppc, keeping the extension and had no problems. Maybe if I had changed it to tivoftpd after putting it on the hard drive I wouldn't have had any problems. Anyway, it works. Thanks for the help.