wu-ftpd & site exec & tar dies after archiving 996 files (170mb)

Hi,
I have a problem to run "quote site exec tar cf  file.tar    *.tif".
Is there a problem with number of files we can put into a tar file when
using "quote site exec"??


Just a small history here, we are using quote site exec with wu-ftpd for
two years (recompiled and set properly and used by clients to
tar/gzip/unzip, etc. all within ../bin/ftp-exec directory).  All commands
always work.

The new directory has huge number of  tif files (3,000) and when the user
runs "quote site exec tar -cf file.tar    *.tif" only a file with 996 files
is created.  Always the same number of files are added to the tar file ->
996.

There is not a quota limit for the user ..
If I ftp and run the script which has a list of all 3000 tif files and I
issue 3000 command "quote site exec tar -rf  file .tar file    ##.tif"   I
got all 3000 files in the file.tar file.. (under the same dir, under the
same userID)!!

What is not working here and  why when using "quote site exec" only a tar
ball with 996 files is created?
When I run the command from the prompt I get a tar ball with all 3000, no
problem.

The ftpaccess has no limit for site-exec-max-lines 0 (but this is for
output truncation ..) and keepalive is turned to yes (this is for TCP - I
know).


Any help or hint?

Thanks,

Magda Hewryk
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