Re: wu-ftpd package weirdnesses
On Fri, 23 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> The wu-ftpd man page has some excellent advice on these questions.
Hmm, well I wasn't exactly looking for advice, but thanks for
directing me to the man page. (blush) Anyway, I created the
directories and gave them permissions as they had under Slackware.
But I'll print out the man page so that I can see how well it conforms
to wu-ftpd's recommendations. ;)
> Yes, the Slackware version is statically linked. If you look, the
> debian version puts copies of the required lib*.so files in the
> directory "lib".
Well, since it configures things so that anonymous has the run of the
filesystem (a bad idea, IMNSHO), it wasn't obvious to me that the
files I need are there. So if I want to set things up in a /home/ftp
(chroot'd) type of way, would I need all the lib*.so files in order to
run the dynamically-linked ls, or just certain ones? Or would you
recommend just taking the old statically-linked ls, since it appears
to work fine?
> I'm trying to recall how wu-ftpd installed on my system ... I believe I
> was prompted about the anonymous account by the standard ftp package (in
> netstd). Regardless, you should edit the passwd and group files by
> hand, as you can avoid giving away more info then you want to that way.
Hmm, I don't recall being prompted for that, but since it doesn't
appear to have made a separate ftp hierarchy and configured it for
such, my comments still apply. Would I e-mail the package maintainer
with comments like this, or what?
> I'm at a loss to explain why your install didn't go so well ... did you
> install over Slackware?
Nope. A fresh install on a virgin hard drive. :)
> I hate to say "RTFM", but wu-ftpd comes with excellent documentation ...
> I've never had any problems with it to date.
Thanks. I haven't had problems with wu-ftpd -- just with the Debian
package thereof. (grin&shrug)
Thanks,
Kendall
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