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

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

David M. Smith writes ("Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp"):
> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com> writes:
> Mark> (There's something to be said for having the debian ftpd package
> Mark> either handle this or include a script to do so... even if it
> Mark> means "dpkg --root ~ftp -i base*.deb" :-)
> 
> Definitely agree with this.  It would be nice to have an anon-ftp
> package which would set up ~ftp as appropriate (but not as extremely
> as Mark suggests!)

The package exists, and is called `wu-ftpd'.

Ian.