Re: [Proftpd-user] Hello / how to remove leading ".\"

[Boris <bo...@ca...>]

Am 22.01.19 um 12:31 schrieb Kai Schaetzl:
> Boris wrote on Fri, 18 Jan 2019 09:50:36 +0100:
> 
>> How do I get proftd to present the files without the ".\"
> 
> I think that's the wrong question. Why, in the first place, does your 
> *writing* client do this? It looks a bit like it is configured to write to 
> "./thisfile" (= "this directory thisfile"), which is ".\thisfile" in 
> "Windows speak". Change it to write to "thisfile" only. There is no need 
> for "./" or ".\" at all.
> 

Hej Kai,

thank you VERY much for you answer! I was already worried that the list
was orphaned....
Should I better use the forum?

Of course you are absolutely right: The writing clients (about 70
Windows boxes) cause the issue. They write to "this file in this dir"
and this is absolutely unnecessary.
But - and that's the full trouble - those clients are proprietary
software - no chance to configure anything. The clients used to write to
a Windows ftp server which doesn't seem to have a problem with that an
simply writes the filename without the leading ".\". Now that there is a
Linux ftp server, the ".\" become visible.

As a interims solution I wrote a tiny script that renames the files, but
that is quite rough....

Regards,


Boris