Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp

To: D.M.Smith@lancs.ac.uk
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, Peter Tobias <tobias@et-inf.fho-emden.de>
Subject: Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp
From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 4 May 96 14:33 BST
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David M. Smith writes ("Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp"):
> I've just enabled anonymous ftp to my Debian 1.1 Linux box according
> to the instructions in the ftpd manpage.  [...]

Oh dear.  Of course the right thing to do is to install wu-ftpd.

Could the ftpd manpage be changed so that it recommends that the user
install the wu-ftpd package and only follows its instructions if they
don't want this for some reason ?

Ian.

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