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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
