[APP][2.3+] FTPDroid (2.1.0) - Pure-FTPd ported to Android

peterbonge · Aug 28, 2011

berserker_devel said:
Can you submit a better one? I'm not very good with that

Sorry, no. I'm not a designer.
I think a little Android in combination with the word "FTP" would make sense. Or an "classic" network symbol with an Android. Maybe some designers are reading this.

It's there for the easiest usage: if I disable it, a newbie user would be force to configure options and will probably look for something else...

OK.

Any hint to kill a process with all child processes?

I can't help you with this. I just can say that every other (working) FTP server I've tested is closing the connection properly.

nedy555 · Aug 28, 2011

useful tahnks

developer++ · Aug 28, 2011

berserker_devel said:
I know about this issue (it's present in SSHDroid too): this is because the daemon process spawns subprocesses to manage incoming connections and, when I kill it, the child processes are still alive (this explains your issue).

Any hint to kill a process with all child processes?

I dont know if it works with android but you can maintain a Hashmap of the child Processes spawned..... before killing the parent process iterate over the map and kill all the child processes...

berserker_devel · Aug 29, 2011

developer++ said:
I dont know if it works with android but you can maintain a Hashmap of the child Processes spawned..... before killing the parent process iterate over the map and kill all the child processes...

I have no "direct" access to the ID of the child process since FTPDroid is a wrapper around Pure-FTPd. I only know the main process ID and I need something to iterate over the child processes (even using the ndk, no prob with that).
Thanks anyway for the suggestion

peterbonge · Sep 27, 2011

At the moment I'm using FTPDroid to sync my media files (with SyncBackSE).
With my Nexus S (Android 2.3.6) it works really fine, but with my Transformer (Android 3.2) not. There FTPDroid doesn't seem to be able to change the file times (MDTM). All synced files have the current date+time and because of this the sync app always detects changes. It would be nice if this could be fixed.

And a wish: It would be nice if there would be an option for the log to not hide the info between the two lines. Similar to the second screenshot in the first post. Just a little bit higher. And if this is possible there should be an option to remember the last state.

peterbonge · Sep 28, 2011

An update:

Today I wanted to sync my phone again and the sync app wanted to copy every file to my PC because the time-stamps had a difference of 2h.
I'm sure that the time-stamps of the files on the PC are all unchanged. That means that something has changed the time-stamps of all files on the device -2h.
I doubt that this was caused by FTPDroid, because it already happened in the past with another device and via USB connection. I think it was caused by Android. Maybe the media scanner? Has anybody some info? Google Search doesn't help with this problem.

Another problem: It seems that the sync app doesn't always find all files on the phone. Sometimes the sync app shows files as missing on the device and if I scan again these files aren't missing anymore.

imakul8 · Nov 9, 2011

I love your app man! I had been trying to figure out Filezilla(never did either

) when I discovered your app. I use it with FireFTP on Firefox. It is so simple to use and I have never had a single issue with it. This will remain a staple app for me. Btw, I gave you all my "Thanks" for the day.

Albert Poon · Nov 18, 2011

berserker_devel said:
Any hint to kill a process with all child processes?

(Hey Berserker here I come!)

Maybe a loop script running in background?

get the proc id of pure-ftpd (SERVER) and check /proc/$ID, if not exist, kill all pure-ftpd (IDLE) and exit the script?

Also, can you implement wake on command?

I have done some tests regarding transfer speed:

Screen on:
To SSHDroid: 4Mb/s
From SSHDroid: 2Mb/s

Screen off:
To SSHDroid: 3Mb/s
From SSHDroid: 1.6Mb/s

My settings:
Lock Wifi: ON
MicroSD: 32G/class10
SetCPU: 118800/19200, Screen off: 38400/19200

berserker_devel · Nov 21, 2011

get the proc id of pure-ftpd (SERVER) and check /proc/$ID, if not exist, kill all pure-ftpd (IDLE) and exit the script?

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have a look on it

Also, can you implement wake on command?

Can you explain this? As you probably know FTPDroid is a native port of Pure-FTPd and my original idea is to keep it as "clean" as possible without "hacking" it.

Mr Wolf · Nov 21, 2011

Hi!
I read FTPDroid supports SFTP, but I can't find any option about it.

berserker_devel · Nov 21, 2011

Mr Wolf said:
Hi!
I read FTPDroid supports SFTP, but I can't find any option about it.

Pure-FTPd already supports SFTP but actually isn't available on FTPDroid yet.
It will probably available in the next releases, bye!

Ghodmode · Dec 8, 2011

No directory listing

I can't get it to work for me. From the PC, I can log in, but I'm unable to retrieve directory listing. It just hangs after trying to retrieve the directory listing.

I've tried active and passive mode, just in case.

On PC, I'm using Linux. I've tried both Filezilla and the command-line FTP client.

Here's the output:

Connected to sgs2.
220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd ----------
220-You are user number 1 of 50 allowed.
220-Local time is now 13:24. Server port: 21.
220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server.
220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Name (sgs2:ghodmode): anonymous
230 Anonymous user logged in
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful
150 Connecting to port 57662

Home network using WiFi on LAN
Samsung Galaxy S2 (GT-I9100)
Codeworkx Kernel: Android 2.3.5
CyanogenMod 7

Thank you.

Ghodmode
www ghodmode com

berserker_devel · Jan 5, 2012

Version 1.2.0 has just been released on the market, here it is the changelog:

ICS compatibility fixes
Active connections are now closed correctly once the service is stopped
Translations updated

FqFKrazz · Jan 10, 2012

Tasker

Hi,

I've tried about all different FTP-servers I can find and yours is the best one I can find.

There is, however, one detail that work with the other servers that doesn't work with yours.
When I try to kill the FTP-server with tasker, it doesn't die.

I have Tasker set up to kill some apps when disconnected from the charger. All apps that I try to kill die, except for the FTPDroid.

So, is there a way to take care of this? Maybe send a parameter to the process or in some other way tell FTPDroid to shut down.

Best regards,
Krazz

berserker_devel · Jan 10, 2012

FqFKrazz said:
Hi,

I've tried about all different FTP-servers I can find and yours is the best one I can find.

There is, however, one detail that work with the other servers that doesn't work with yours.
When I try to kill the FTP-server with tasker, it doesn't die.

I have Tasker set up to kill some apps when disconnected from the charger. All apps that I try to kill die, except for the FTPDroid.

So, is there a way to take care of this? Maybe send a parameter to the process or in some other way tell FTPDroid to shut down.

Best regards,
Krazz

Thanks for the feedback

I never used Tasker on Android but you could have a look if that application supports one of the following operations:

Send a command to the ftp service: this is the best solution since you could send "STOP" to service berserker.android.apps.ftpdroid.DaemonService (free version) or berserker.android.apps.ftpdroidpro.DaemonService (paid version)
Kill the pure-ftpd application: this is more complex since you will need to invoke a shell with "kill <pure-ftpd pid>" where pure-ftpd pid could be read from a file called "pid" located in /data/data/berserker.android.apps.ftpdroid/bin/pid
Using killall: you need to invoke the command "killall pure-ftpd" but note that the killall utility, as far as I know, is not available in the standard Android "distribution" (only the kill command). Busybox is the way to go in this case

Hope it helps, let me know

FqFKrazz · Jan 10, 2012

berserker_devel said:
Thanks for the feedback
I never used Tasker on Android but you could have a look if that application supports one of the following operations:

Send a command to the ftp service: this is the best solution since you could send "STOP" to service berserker.android.apps.ftpdroid.DaemonService (free version) or berserker.android.apps.ftpdroidpro.DaemonService (paid version)

Kill the pure-ftpd application: this is more complex since you will need to invoke a shell with "kill <pure-ftpd pid>" where pure-ftpd pid could be read from a file called "pid" located in /data/data/berserker.android.apps.ftpdroid/bin/pid

Using killall: you need to invoke the command "killall pure-ftpd" but note that the killall utility, as far as I know, is not available in the standard Android "distribution" (only the kill command). Busybox is the way to go in this case

Hope it helps, let me know

Ok, I will look into those options.

FqFKrazz · Jan 10, 2012

Swedish Translation

I have made a Swedish translation.

Uno dei tanti · Jan 10, 2012

Useful, thank you!

berserker_devel · Jan 10, 2012

FqFKrazz said:
I have made a Swedish translation.

Thanks for the translation but unfortunately it seems that there is a problem with the encoding of the files? Which text editor did you use?

FqFKrazz · Jan 10, 2012

FqFKrazz said:
Ok, I will look into those options.

Since I have a rooted phone (SGS2) with busybox I also have the killall command.

So (using a terminal emulator) I tried killall pure-ftpd which worked. That is, the ftp server was killed and I was unable to access it.
FTPDroid was however still running, which made it impossible to connect again. So I also had to execute a "kill ftpdroid". After that I could run FTPDroid as usual and it works.

For others using Tasker:
In Tasker I added a Run Shell command (Misc -> Run Shell) where the command is "killall pure-ftpd" and Use Root is checked.
In the same task as the above Run Shell command, I also added a Kill App (App -> Kill App) where I selected FTPDroid and Use Root is checked.
It's also important that the Run Shell command is executed before the Kill App. If not, this won't work.

Thanks for the help. I will now buy your app as a token of appreciation.

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