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

[Manfred Usselmann]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:51:31 -0500
David Horn <dhorn2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Manfred Usselmann
> <usselmann.m at icg-online.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:17:16 +0100
> > Manfred Usselmann <usselmann.m at icg-online.de> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:23:17 -0500
> >> David Horn <dhorn2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > 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.
> >
> > Did work for me!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Manfred
> 
> OK.   I will try to report it to the upstream (ncftp.com/contact), and
> failing that we could always patch as part of the ncftp 3.2.3 update
> into freebsd ports, but glad to hear it worked for you.

The port has been updated to 3.2.3 but without a fix.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=140934 mentions a fix to
FreeBSD 8 which sounds like it should have solved our issue. Don't know
why it didn't.

Regards,
Manfred

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