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Fist Fun
05:40 / 29.10.02
Right, I keep a personal, rather sad little blog for note taking and stuff.

Hasn't been updating for a while. This was before the hax0red attacks. I think the problem comes from permissions on my server. I usually update through a GUI that I wrote myself that makes calls to the Blogger API via XML-RPC. I don't think this has anything to do with the problem because the updates get posted to the Blogger web interface - they just don't publish to the actual web page.

Looking at the FTP log it seems that the permissions aren't right on my server. So, is this just a case of doing a chmod on the permissions? I ask because this problem happened a few months ago but righted itself after a few days before I had time to look at it.

Here are the ftp logs - anyone got any advice?

created: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 07:23:41 GMT
220 Matrix FTP Server ready.
USER Davidlock
331 User name okay, need password.
PASS xxxxxx
230 User logged in, proceed.
SYST
215 UNIX type: L8.
PWD
257 "/publict.co.uk" is is working directory.
REST 1
350 Requested file action pending further information.
REST 0
350 Requested file action pending further information.
Restartable feature is enabled.
TYPE A
200 Type set to A.
TYPE I
200 Type set to I.
PORT 64,41,146,210,206,186
200 PORT Command successful.
STOR e:/4217/publict.co.uk/user/htdocs/Archives/2002_10_06_Archive
550 Access Denied for file - /publict.co.uk/e:/4217/publict.co.uk/user/htdocs/Archives/2002_10_06_Archive
ERROR: while trying to send file to server.
TYPE I
200 Type set to I.
PORT 64,41,146,210,206,196
200 PORT Command successful.
STOR e:/4217/publict.co.uk/user/htdocs/Archives/Archive
550 Access Denied for file - /publict.co.uk/e:/4217/publict.co.uk/user/htdocs/Archives/Archive
ERROR: while trying to send file to server.
TYPE I
200 Type set to I.
PORT 64,41,146,210,206,204
200 PORT Command successful.
STOR e:/4217/publict.co.uk/user/htdocs/blogger2.html
550 Access Denied for file - /publict.co.uk/e:/4217/publict.co.uk/user/htdocs/blogger2.html
ERROR: while trying to send file to server.
QUIT
221 Goodbye.
 
 
Linus Dunce
10:19 / 29.10.02
Difficult to tell.

If you're trying to overwrite existing files, it may be you just have to chmod them to allow deletion.

If you are overwriting, can you send a test file with a name that doesn't exist already?
 
 
Fist Fun
11:21 / 29.10.02
Hmmm, it worked before though. The permissions have never been changed. I don't see why everything has gone tits up. I'll mibbes sit down and work through it with tests and stuff at the weekend.

Thanks for your post Ignatius.
 
 
Linus Dunce
11:34 / 29.10.02
Good luck. I hope I haven't pointed you in completely the wrong direction. These things are always frustrating because you can never tell what the operator has been up to while you were away. It may be worth e-mailing them if you get really stuck, some of them are very helpful.
 
 
w1rebaby
11:38 / 29.10.02
Have you used any new FTP programs recently, even briefly? I say this because I got into a tizzy when I started using gFTP, since it reset permissions in a way I wasn't familiar with and I didn't realise. You may not be such a dork as me, though.
 
 
Linus Dunce
13:49 / 29.10.02
Sorry to bump this back up to the top.

It may also be that another process (e.g. a backup thingie) has temporarily got hold of the files you want to overwrite.
 
 
Fist Fun
18:36 / 29.10.02
I don't think it is either of those suggestions lads. I did attempt to use an SCP client (which is apparently better because it encrypts the passwords when the are sent) but it worked after that and that was a while ago...
 
  
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