Subj : qnet-ftp and non-standard ports
To : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Nov 01 2009 10:26 pm
Re: qnet-ftp and non-standard ports
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sun Nov 01 2009 09:17 pm
> Hi -
>
> In the process of using the qnet-ftp script to set up my BBS with a QWK hub
> with a non-standard FTP port, I seem to have spotted a bug in the qnet-ftp
> script.
>
> I've updated my sbbs\exec directory from the CVS repository and noticed
> that a couple years ago, the qnet-ftp script had been updated to take a
> port number as the last argument. However, it seems to be setting the port
> number to only the last digit of the port number specified on the command
> line. For example, I'm specifying port 2121 on the qnet-ftp command-line;
> I added a line of debugging in the qnet-ftp script during its command-line
> processing, under the "case 3" (where it's setting the port variable) to
> output the port that it gets. It seems to be iterating over each digit in
> the port argument. This is the output I see in my Synchronet events window
> (with my line of debug output) when my BBS does the network call-out (my
> password has been hidden with asterisks): 11/1 09:10:26p QNET-FTP: KELLYS
> kellys.synchro.net ******** 2121
> 11/1 09:10:26p *** Passed port: 2
> 11/1 09:10:26p *** Passed port: 1
> 11/1 09:10:26p *** Passed port: 2
> 11/1 09:10:26p *** Passed port: 1
> 11/1 09:10:26p QNET-FTP: Connecting to kellys.synchro.net:1 ...
>
> Would this be easily fixable?
Try this:
http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/exec/qnet-ftp.src
That should fix it.
digital man
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