how my folder turns to shortcut in ioftpd?

[Silly]

its just a mp3 folder...when i am trying to upload files to that folder...it just tunrs to shortcut..anyone knows how? it seems like
the problem of .ioFTPD....when i delette it and restart the io...thd folder is back...
all the scripts i am using ..ioa iozs newdir...

[neoxed]

They're called symlinks, not "shortcuts". Looks like you have a lot of reading to do...

http://www.ioftpd.com/documentation/03-vfs.php#symlink

[Silly]

Originally posted by NeoXed
They're called symlinks, not "shortcuts". Looks like you have a lot of reading to do...

http://www.ioftpd.com/documentation/03-vfs.php#symlink

umm sorry i think its my fault not to express clear enough
...all i want to say is that...when the folder auto turns to symlinks...then i don't have the permission to access it....

[sir_crazz]

I have the exact same problem ...I suspect ioZs for doing it...

When I upload something to my games folder it change the folder to a shortcut and I cant access it

[L] CWD GAMES
[L] 550 GAMES: No such file or directory.

Please help!

[neoxed]

There's a script that seems to symlink directories at random; I'm not sure which script is doing it, but I've seen a lot of people run into this problem in ioFTPD's IRC channel. When it happens, you can just remove the symlink status using the site chattr command.

SITE CHATTR -l <directory>

[sir_crazz]

If I remove the symlink it just comes back when I upload something new... I am pretty sure its ioZs making it cause if I remove the script it doesnt make the main folders symlinks...

I reinstalled the script like 4-5 times now but nothing seems to work...

PLease help

[neoxed]

Originally posted by sir_crazz
I reinstalled the script like 4-5 times now but nothing seems to work...

Well it's probably a bug in the script, reinstalling it won't fix the problem.

Do you use bounty's newdir by chance?

[sir_crazz]

It does the same with an older version of ioZs which used to work before and no I dont use that newdir script...

[Sjon]

any luck on figuring this out ?

i have this problem for over a year now some say winxp problem some say scripts , but i used win2K/winXP and alot of scripts and updated them recently and always the same stupid symlink problem save's alot of trouble if there is someone with a solution

greetz

[Sjon]

hmmm think i have my problem solved ....

anybody using latestdir.tcl ???

i turn the script off in ioftpd.ini
and now i dont have any symlink errors but i dont have latest also

ahh what the # my problem is solved
hope that helps , and i hope that our script master fix the latestdir.tcl

[esmandil]

I have taken a look at ioLATESTDIR.itcl... one problem I see is that it doesn't work properly if directory name has trailing slash. Adding right after this line:

set vfs [lindex "$args" 1]

the following:

# Remove trailing "/" - it can be here sometimes
set vfs "[string range $vfs 0 end-1][regsub {/} [string index $vfs end] {}]"

should fix it.

I don't see, however, how that could result in random symlinks being created. So there may be yet another problem hidden somewhere. But try it - it may help.

Let me know of the results. BTW, does anybody has a method of reproducing this problem? I have seen it on my ftp from time to time, but it doesn't occur very often.