appyface
Good Morning,
In Remote Browser to a Unix AIX system, I pasted from clipboard, the path to navigate to (rather than traverse the tree structure manually with mouse).
Unfortunately I did not notice that I included a trailing space when I copied the path from an email into the clipboard. When I pasted the path in, instead of navigating to the existing directory, it appeared to create another directory of the same name PLUS the trailing space.
The 'new' directory shows in the tree structure but produces errors in the log. I cannot rename or delete this directory.
After I logged off and back on with SFTP, the 'new' directory is not listed. So I believe this is only a GUI problem, it was not actually created in the AIX system.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Log on to (unix only?) system in remote browser
2. Click in the Navigation box to allow input
3. Type in or paste an existing pathname, starting from root, and then include a trailing space, hit enter. My example: /usr/abc/work/testing (with a trailing space on it)
4. New directory appears to be created with the trailing space. It is visible in the tree view. If I try using 'rename' function, the trailing space can be seen at the end of the new directory.
5. Any attempts to alter the directory name and/or delete it, receive "no such file or directory" in the log
6. The phantom directory remains in the tree until log off
7. The phantom directory does not appear after re-logon.
Here's the log fragment from when the directory was 'created'. I have used an underscore in place of the space, for illustration.
[14:40:45] CWD /usr/abc/work/testing_ <---- a trailing space is visible even in the log
[14:40:45] 550 /usr/abc/work/testing_: No such file or directory
Here's the log fragment from an attempt to rename ..../testing_ to .../testing1:
[14:47:28] RNFR /usr/abc/work/testing_
[14:47:28] 550 /usr/abc/work/testing_: No such file or directory
[14:47:28] CWD /usr/abc/work/testing_
[14:47:28] 550 /usr/abc/work/testing_: No such file or directory
Let me know if you need anything else to reproduce this. Thanks!
Best regards,
--appyface
In Remote Browser to a Unix AIX system, I pasted from clipboard, the path to navigate to (rather than traverse the tree structure manually with mouse).
Unfortunately I did not notice that I included a trailing space when I copied the path from an email into the clipboard. When I pasted the path in, instead of navigating to the existing directory, it appeared to create another directory of the same name PLUS the trailing space.
The 'new' directory shows in the tree structure but produces errors in the log. I cannot rename or delete this directory.
After I logged off and back on with SFTP, the 'new' directory is not listed. So I believe this is only a GUI problem, it was not actually created in the AIX system.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Log on to (unix only?) system in remote browser
2. Click in the Navigation box to allow input
3. Type in or paste an existing pathname, starting from root, and then include a trailing space, hit enter. My example: /usr/abc/work/testing (with a trailing space on it)
4. New directory appears to be created with the trailing space. It is visible in the tree view. If I try using 'rename' function, the trailing space can be seen at the end of the new directory.
5. Any attempts to alter the directory name and/or delete it, receive "no such file or directory" in the log
6. The phantom directory remains in the tree until log off
7. The phantom directory does not appear after re-logon.
Here's the log fragment from when the directory was 'created'. I have used an underscore in place of the space, for illustration.
[14:40:45] CWD /usr/abc/work/testing_ <---- a trailing space is visible even in the log
[14:40:45] 550 /usr/abc/work/testing_: No such file or directory
Here's the log fragment from an attempt to rename ..../testing_ to .../testing1:
[14:47:28] RNFR /usr/abc/work/testing_
[14:47:28] 550 /usr/abc/work/testing_: No such file or directory
[14:47:28] CWD /usr/abc/work/testing_
[14:47:28] 550 /usr/abc/work/testing_: No such file or directory
Let me know if you need anything else to reproduce this. Thanks!
Best regards,
--appyface