[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Can't create .listing files over FTP

[Magnus Henoch]

address@hidden (James Blackwell) writes:

>> On Fri Apr 16 00:46:43 2004, Magnus Henoch wrote:
>> When I run this:
>> 
>> tla make-archive -l -s --mirror address@hidden 
>> ftp://username:address@hidden/archives/
>> 
>> aiming to mirror my local archive onto the web space provided by my
>> ISP, I get this:
>> 
>> ftp_client_rename: error renaming 
>> /archives/=meta-info/,,upload-tmp.1082072539.29964.7 to 
>> /archives/=meta-info/.listing
>>     550: 350 File exists, ready for destination name
>> 550 rename: No such file or directory.
>> 
>> The same command without -l succeeds.
>
> Mind checking something for me? 
>
> 1. See if you can ftp to the server yourself and create a file named
> ".listing" by hand. 
>
> 2. If so, can you mv it to another dir?

Using gFTP, everything works as expected - I found that it always
changes to the directory it wants to use.  With a command line client,
picking up just where tla fails, I tried the following:

[ the first one is what tla uses ]
ftp> rename /archives/=meta-info/,,upload-tmp.1082465968.1684.7 
/archives/=meta-info/.listing
350 File exists, ready for destination name
550 rename: No such file or directory.
ftp> rename /archives/=meta-info/,,upload-tmp.1082465968.1684.7 
archives/=meta-info/.listing
350 File exists, ready for destination name
550 rename: No such file or directory.
ftp> cd archives/=meta-info
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> rename ,,upload-tmp.1082465968.1684.7 /archives/=meta-info/.listing
350 File exists, ready for destination name
250 RNTO command successful.

So it seems that the FTP server doesn't like the file to be renamed to
have an absolute path... with a fresh failure, I tried this, with the
root directory being current:

ftp> rename archives/=meta-info/,,upload-tmp.1082466397.2837.7 
/archives/=meta-info/.listing
350 File exists, ready for destination name
250 RNTO command successful.

Looks like an FTP server bug.  The server doesn't tell what it's
running; I'll ask my ISP about that.

Magnus