[dev] Re: VFS errors in HEAD version of Vcation

[Lance Wilson]

Posting to wrong list:  Sorry.  I was actually debating wherether to post it 
to developers (because it was CVS code) or to the sork newsgroup.  I thought 
developers would be more appropriate... but that is ok, now it is in the 
right group.

Did a bit of investigation on this and discovered something.  Here is the 
output from my FTP servers log file:

Apr 11 19:11:32 kelly ftpd[18655]: wu-ftpd - TLS settings: control allow, 
client_cert allow, data allow
Apr 11 19:11:32 kelly ftpd[18655]: USER lance
Apr 11 19:11:32 kelly ftpd[18655]: PASS *********
Apr 11 19:11:33 kelly ftp(pam_unix)[18655]: session opened for user lance by 
(uid=0)
Apr 11 19:11:33 kelly ftpd: jennifer.webguyinternet.com: lance[18655]: FTP 
LOGIN FROM jennifer.webguyinternet.com [68.142.136.12], lance
Apr 11 19:11:33 kelly ftpd: jennifer.webguyinternet.com: lance: TYPE 
I[18655]: TYPE Image
Apr 11 19:11:33 kelly ftpd: jennifer.webguyinternet.com: lance: PORT 
68,142,136,12,166,129[18655]: PORT
Apr 11 19:11:33 kelly ftpd: jennifer.webguyinternet.com: lance: STOR 
.forward[18655]: STOR .forward
Apr 11 19:11:33 kelly ftpd: jennifer.webguyinternet.com: lance: PORT 
68,142,136,12,166,130[18655]: PORT
Apr 11 19:11:33 kelly ftpd: jennifer.webguyinternet.com: lance: RETR 
.forward[18655]: RETR .forward
Apr 11 19:11:33 kelly ftpd: jennifer.webguyinternet.com: lance: PORT 
68,142,136,12,166,131[18655]: PORT
Apr 11 19:11:33 kelly ftpd: jennifer.webguyinternet.com: lance: RETR 
.forward[18655]: RETR .forward
Apr 11 19:11:33 kelly ftpd: jennifer.webguyinternet.com: lance: PORT 
68,142,136,12,166,132[18655]: PORT
Apr 11 19:11:33 kelly ftpd: jennifer.webguyinternet.com: lance: RETR 
.forward[18655]: RETR .forward
Apr 11 19:11:33 kelly ftp(pam_unix)[18655]: session closed for user lance
Apr 11 19:11:33 kelly ftpd: jennifer.webguyinternet.com: lance: IDLE[18655]: 
FTP session closed

The system creates a file called .forward (in the correct location) but it 
is 0 bytes.
One thing I did notice is that Gollem is setup in PASV mode and Forwards and 
Vacation seem to be setup in PORT mode.  Could that be the issue?  Gollem 
works fine... the others don't.

Beginning to think this may be a firewall thing???  Running in a fedora Core 
3 Linux.

Lance Wilson
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"Eric Rostetter" <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu> wrote in message 
news:1113253397.65c9b622c433b at mail.ph.utexas.edu...
> Quoting Lance Wilson <lance at webguyinternet.com>:
>
>> I just installed the latest version of the HEAD CVS of Vacation (with 
>> HEAD
>> versions of Horde, IMP, Gollem, etc)
>
> You should report this to the sork mailing list instead of the dev mailing
> list.
>
> What driver are you using?
>
>> When I try to create a vacation message I get this error:
>>   Failure in modifying vacation notice: Unable to write VFS file
>> ".vacation.msg".
>>
>> What does this mean?
>
> It means the driver (you didn't specify which driver you configured) 
> returned
> a failure message which reads "Unable to write the VFS file 
> ".vacation.msg".
>
> This could be for various reasons.  If using the forwards (ftp based)
> driver, it would imply that the login to the ftp server worked, but 
> writing
> the file failed.  This could be because the ftp server doesn't 
> automatically
> drop the loggin into their home directory, or the login doesn't have write
> permission to the home directory, or the file already exists and can't be
> overwritten, or the file system used doesn't support the filename used,
> or any number of other things.
>
> So, assuming you do use the ftp forwards driver, I'd check your ftp server
> logs for errors to help debug it.
>
>> I am able to get Gollem to work and FTP into my remote
>> mailserver box but Vacation does not seem to work. Any ideas?  How to I
>> enable the debugging to get further details on this issue.
>
> First, check your ftp server logs.  Then, try a manual ftp connection
> and see if it puts you in the proper directory, and if so, if you can
> put a file there called .vacation.msg or not.
>
>> I am using MySQL in the Horde Prefs as the VFS filesystem.  I'm not sure 
>> if
>> this is related.
>
> Depends on how you configured vacation, I think.  But I could be wrong.
>
>> Lance Wilson
>
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> Eric Rostetter
> The Department of Physics
> The University of Texas at Austin
>
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