Comments on: I have files which continue to appear in Apache but can not be deleted because they supposedly do not exist.

Question: I have files which continue to appear in Apache but can not be deleted because they supposedly do not exist.

o2b — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:47:35 -0800

FTP help: I have some files on an external server (Apache) that I am unable to delete because "there is no such file or directory". Yet, mysteriously, they remain. [mi]

I've Googled without finding a solution. I think it may have something to do with the file names -- they were created by an old mac user and have spaces and extra periods in them. I can't do anything to them -- move them, rename them, what have you. I've tried with multiple FTP clients and from multiple locations.

Any thoughts?

By: namespan

namespan — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:55:22 -0800

Which clients? Have you tried a command line client yet?

By: the fire you left me

the fire you left me — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:01:44 -0800

SSH to the account with putty and remove them. Also, the webserver has nothing to do with the files.

By: fuzz

fuzz — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:05:25 -0800

Use a command-line ftp client, and enclose the filenames in double quotes.

By: o2b

o2b — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:17:37 -0800

Aaaaahhh, I feel clean now. Thanks for the help.

For the record, I tried Putty first and it worked like a charm. Also for the record, Putty revealed that the file names in question had a space as the first character, which seemed to be the culprit.

By: tss

tss — Sat, 01 May 2004 14:46:14 -0800

TFYLM: Did you catch that the rm(1) manpage you linked to was a joke manpage griping about the ADA programming language? Took me a few looks too...