TJ Saunders

References/fun reading: - Nielsen's [Error Message Guidelines](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/error-message-guidelines/) - ACM [Error Messages: What's the Problem?](https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1036499) - [Improving Software Diagnosability via Log Enhancement](http://opera.ucsd.edu/~soyeon/pub/tocs-ding.pdf) - Jeff Atwood's [Error Codes Must Die](http://blog.codinghorror.com/error-codes-must-die/) - Dave...

As part of this work, I should create a howto which documents the most common errors, and why they happen, with larger stories and solutions. (I'm looking at you, data...

For the scope of the 1.3.7 ProFTPD release, I'd like to support **just one** use case here. I'll focus on a fail download due to permissions.

Moving this to 1.3.8; the necessary support for explaining the different `open(2)` error scenarios, especially given ProFTPD's path checking, is more involved than I think is warranted now. I'd like...

If we ignore failures to the SSH key, we leak information that it is the key (and not the username/password) that is wrong; such differences in timing/delays injected, based on...

Could you provide the full configuration directly here? The referenced config file has several `Include` directives -- and the included files aren't there -- which means that we cannot see...

@Egbertk are you using the "W3 Total Cache" plugin as well, such that https://github.com/W3EDGE/w3-total-cache/issues/310#issuecomment-869578774 applies? If so, I'd like to close this ticket. Thanks @caugner for the additional info!

@TheEvilCoder42 Yes, seeing your ProFTPD config would help me look into this behavior with your setup. Thanks!

@TheEvilCoder42 Glad to know that you figured it out. In the ProFTPD config file, directives must be in a `` section in order for them to be "global". Directives outside...

Yes, there are some directives (such as `LogFormat`) that aren't allowed in `` sections -- and should be. I'll see about filing a separate issue for more consistent handling of...