Hello Joerg,
On Wed, 05 Sep 2018 09:50:09 +0200 Joerg Thuemmler <lis...@vordruckleitverlag.de> wrote: > Am 03.09.2018 um 11:34 schrieb wwp: > > Hello! > > > > there's something I'm experiencing quite frequently now, I'm not sure I > > was facing this behaviour w/ former versions: it's losing the FTP > > connection after a while being inactive then there is no way to free the > > VFs from the 'Active VFS directories' (it's listed in) and there is no > > way to re-instantiate the connection again. > > > > If I try from the 'Directory hotlist', I get a: > > Cannot chdir to "/ftp://...."; > > Remote I/O error (121)) > > if I try from 'FTP link...', I get only: > > Cannot chdir to "/ftp://...."; > > > > The only way I've found to reconnect to a lost FTP connection is > > restarting mc, which is not convenient nor expected. > > > > mc 4.8.1 compiled from the sources, on am up-to-date CentOS7 box: > > $ mc --version > > GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.21 > > Built with GLib 2.54.2 > > Using the S-Lang library with terminfo database > > With builtin Editor > > With subshell support as default > > With support for background operations > > With mouse support on xterm and Linux console > > With support for X11 events > > With internationalization support > > With multiple codepages support > > Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ftpfs, sftpfs, fish, smbfs > > Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64; > > > > > > Regards, > > [snip] > Also I noted ftp servers, which do block the connection after some idle time > and if you try to use this connection, they want you to reconnect and to put > in your password once more. Mc caches your pw and resends it, but the new > connection is started in the ftp users root dir (on the ftp server) again, > not in the dir you last used. That may confuse the vfs system, but it's a > problem connected with the ftp server's usual behavior (mc could resend the > "cd" commands then after reconnection, dunno whether it's possible to cache > last dir before timeout disconnect). I experience this specific behaviour quite often (back to root or parent folder). [snip] > I would try to get a later timeout on the used ftp server, as I believe it's > an old "feature" and will not be changed next time, espacially as sftp will > become a more important ftp replacing... Maybe you should change some other > properties of your ftp servers making trouble if you try to re-connect. But > this depends on ftp server program used. I'm afraid I can't change anything on the FTP server side, it's not mine at all.. All I know is that mc is not behaving correctly (and possibly differently than "before"?) - I don't face such issues w/ filezilla against the same FTP servers. Regards, -- wwp
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