minor "wishlist" for drobo-utils
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Andreas Leitgeb
Jun 17, 2016, 11:56:35 PM6/17/16
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These are some minor things that might be fixable some way or another...
- fwcheck tries to retrieve a file from an ftp-url. the ftp-server at updates.drobo.com doesn't seem to work correctly, and even if I try to go there with ftp, I can login (user ftp, empty password), but any file (or even just directory listing) transfer just never occurs... infinite wait... apparently, dri no longer supports this ftp-server, and unless an alternative URL exists, the button could be removed from droboview, as all it does is freeze the gui.
- format doesn't really need the confirmation - it only provides a script. Data is only lost when that script is run. Maybe instead add a preamble to the generated script to have it require the 'PleaseEraseMyData' argument upon its execution.
- fwcheck tries to retrieve a file from an ftp-url. the ftp-server at updates.drobo.com doesn't seem to work correctly, and even if I try to go there with ftp, I can login (user ftp, empty password), but any file (or even just directory listing) transfer just never occurs... infinite wait... apparently, dri no longer supports this ftp-server, and unless an alternative URL exists, the button could be removed from droboview, as all it does is freeze the gui.
- format doesn't really need the confirmation - it only provides a script. Data is only lost when that script is run. Maybe instead add a preamble to the generated script to have it require the 'PleaseEraseMyData' argument upon its execution.
Peter Silva
Jun 18, 2016, 1:35:47 PM6/18/16
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sigh... are firmware downloads in drobo-utils broken?
rant:
FTP should die in a fire. Why can´t people use HTTP for this kind of thing?
bla, bla, bla, api, screen scraping... bla, bla, bla... ok use SFTP,
blah blah blah, not common enough, no common anonymous stuff...
FTP should still die in a FIRE.
/rant
It would appear that Drobo switched their ftp server to passive mode,
which isn´t a bad choice (once you´ve made the bad choice of FTP in
the first place), but... python´s urllib2.urlopen doesn´t appear to
support passive mode, so I have to switch libraries to work around a
trivial setting change... need to use ftplib instead, google is
telling me. ugh.
I logged in anonymously to updates, did ´ls´ got a message, then did
´passive´ and the ´ls' worked. Is that your problem?
work around: download the firmwares manually, and then apply them
locally... I don´t fancy putting in that much effort, but will accept
patches...
The other change, having the script take care of the admonitions
sounds fine also...
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rant:
FTP should die in a fire. Why can´t people use HTTP for this kind of thing?
bla, bla, bla, api, screen scraping... bla, bla, bla... ok use SFTP,
blah blah blah, not common enough, no common anonymous stuff...
FTP should still die in a FIRE.
/rant
It would appear that Drobo switched their ftp server to passive mode,
which isn´t a bad choice (once you´ve made the bad choice of FTP in
the first place), but... python´s urllib2.urlopen doesn´t appear to
support passive mode, so I have to switch libraries to work around a
trivial setting change... need to use ftplib instead, google is
telling me. ugh.
I logged in anonymously to updates, did ´ls´ got a message, then did
´passive´ and the ´ls' worked. Is that your problem?
work around: download the firmwares manually, and then apply them
locally... I don´t fancy putting in that much effort, but will accept
patches...
The other change, having the script take care of the admonitions
sounds fine also...
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Andreas Leitgeb
Jun 18, 2016, 1:44:31 PM6/18/16
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in my case i did try with passive, but it didn't work. - and still doesn't from here. just re-tried. anyway, i'm glad it's not a general problem. btw., drobom already uses passive mode, anyway.
anything about format? or too marginal?
Andreas Leitgeb
Jun 18, 2016, 1:46:59 PM6/18/16
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ah, missed the paragraph about the other change... will eventually post the shell lines... or maybe even a patch...
Peter Silva
Jun 18, 2016, 1:57:01 PM6/18/16
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seems to work fine here fwiw...
ftp> get v1.4.2.tdz
local: v1.4.2.tdz remote: v1.4.2.tdz
227 Entered Passive Mode (166,78,35,9,5,105)
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for v1.4.2.tdz (3324779 bytes).
226 File send OK.
3324779 bytes received in 2.05 secs (1.5453 MB/s)
ftp>
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Andreas Leitgeb <avlp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ah, missed the paragraph about the other change... will eventually post the
> shell lines... or maybe even a patch...
>
ftp> get v1.4.2.tdz
local: v1.4.2.tdz remote: v1.4.2.tdz
227 Entered Passive Mode (166,78,35,9,5,105)
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for v1.4.2.tdz (3324779 bytes).
226 File send OK.
3324779 bytes received in 2.05 secs (1.5453 MB/s)
ftp>
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Andreas Leitgeb <avlp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ah, missed the paragraph about the other change... will eventually post the
> shell lines... or maybe even a patch...
>
Andreas Leitgeb
Jun 18, 2016, 2:27:42 PM6/18/16
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Well, here it just got stuck after requesting the directory listing, until I got a "421 timeout".
Meanwhile I tried it from some other host on a different network, and it worked just fine from there, so whatever it is here, it is irrelevant to this group and I apologize for having brought it up without first checking on that other host.
PS: ... and I agree with your rants about ftp :-)
Meanwhile I tried it from some other host on a different network, and it worked just fine from there, so whatever it is here, it is irrelevant to this group and I apologize for having brought it up without first checking on that other host.
PS: ... and I agree with your rants about ftp :-)
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