Re: [Duplicity-talk] FTP not working

[Kenneth Loafman]

Tim Riemenschneider wrote:
> Tim Riemenschneider schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think I have a problem with the ftp-backend. collection-status shows
>> as empty, but there are backups on the server. I think ncftpls is not
>> working correctly.
>>   
> Ok, trying further revealed the problem: the ftp-server seems to choke
> on the default options of ls, since the first call of ls (long listing)
> works, but the second doesn't:
> So, after hacking ftpbackend.py:
> --- ftpbackend.py.orig  2009-04-02 17:51:52.000000000 +0200
> +++ ftpbackend.py       2009-04-03 13:33:50.000000000 +0200
> @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
>          if not l:
>              return l
>          # if long list is not empty, get short list of names only
> -        commandline = "ncftpls %s '%s'" % \
> +        commandline = "ncftpls %s -x '' '%s'" % \
>              (self.flags, self.url_string)
>          l = self.popen_persist(commandline).split('\n')
>          l = [x.split()[-1] for x in l if x]
> 
> Can my change break something? (Otherwise it could probably go into the
> source?)

No, it looks like the removal of "-x ''" from the original source broke
duplicity for your case, and fixed it in others.  There was a bug this
closed, but it looks like another solution is needed now.

Oh, what I wouldn't give for standardization in FTP servers...

...Ken

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