Package: ftpmirror Version: 1.96+dfsg-16+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I found that ftpmirror does not handle filenames with leading or trailing spaces in unix directory listings. To make matters worse, the error message one gets is not very helpful: get_misc: can't get array at blib/lib/Fan.pm (autosplit into blib/lib/auto/Fan/run_full_mirror.al) line 1269. and then ftpmirror crashes. An example file listing where this happens looks like this: drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp ftp 4 Mar 15 2007 the dir to look at drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp ftp 4 Mar 15 2007 trailing spaces I found it works pretty reliable again after editing /usr/lib/ftpmirror/auto/Fan/Attrib/from_list.al and changing these lines: # kill leading/trailing spaces, and trailing slash s/^\s+//; s/\s+$//; s/\/$//; to: # kill leading space and trailing slash s/^\s//; s/\/$//; i.e. instead of removing all whitespace, it only removes the single whitespace after the file time, and never removes trailing whitespace. I'm not sure trailing whitespace actually exists in reality, but I can imagine extra whitespace after the date, although I haven't seen this yet. Given the age of ftpmirror, I'm not really expecting much action here, maybe a patch or note might be useful though. (I use ftpmirror because, although lftp is quite reliable, it also lacks a lot of the options of ftpmirror, e.g. it can't exclude paths, so it's still useful :) -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, x32 Kernel: Linux 5.4.7-050407-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages ftpmirror depends on: ii libc6 2.28-10 ii perl 5.28.1-6 ii perl-base [perlapi-5.28.0] 5.28.1-6 pn perlapi-5.24.1 <none> pn perlapi-5.30.0 <none> Versions of packages ftpmirror recommends: ii cron 3.0pl1-134+deb10u1 ftpmirror suggests no packages.