duplicity ftp backup / ncftp no longer working since 8.0-Release

[Manfred Usselmann]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:23:17 -0500
David Horn <dhorn2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Manfred Usselmann
> <usselmann.m at icg-online.de> wrote:
> >
> > since my upgrade to 8.0-RELEASE my backup solution with duplicity is no
> > longer working because ncftpput fails.
> >
> > The error message from ncftp 3.2.2_1: Could not read reply from control
> > connection -- timed out.
> >
> > S.a. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=140934
> >
> > Does anybody know a solution or a workaround?
> 
> I have seen this with ncftpput as well, but at least in my case, it
> was a warning, and not a fatal error.  Check your ftp server to see if
> the backup file has indeed been transferred.

The file is getting transferred, but duplicity assumes that it is not
and abends. 


> I believe that there is something unusual going on with the checking
> on select() return in ncftp3.  If you change every instance of
> select() result checking in ftp/ncftp3 from "==1" to ">=1" the problem
> seems to go away.
> 
> result = select(sfd + 1, NULL, SELECT_TYPE_ARG234 &ss, NULL,
> SELECT_TYPE_ARG5 &tv);
> -if (result == 1) {
> +if (result >= 1) {

I will try this.

Thanks!

Manfred



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Manfred Usselmann <usselmann.m at icg-online.de>
ICG IT Consulting GmbH, Kelkheim