On Sat, 4 May 1996, David M Smith wrote:
> > "Mark" == Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> 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!)
>
There is already such thing out t
David M. Smith writes ("Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous
ftp"):
> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mark> (There's something to be said for having the debian ftpd package
> Mark> either ha
David> It would be nice to have an anon-ftp package which would set up ~ftp
David> as appropriate
Just install wu-ftpd.
You will see that Debian has one just like you suggest here.
--
Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
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 change
> "Mark" == Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 a
> Any ideas on how to enable DIR for anonymous ftp users?
Here is what I have in my directories. This was setup automatically when
I installed "wu-ftpd", I believe.
gatekeeper:~ftp# dir bin
gzip* ls*tar* zip*
gatekeeper:~ftp# dir lib
ld.so* libc.so.4@ libc.so.4.6.2
This is probably the most frequently asked question over on the
wu-ftpd list :-)
Easy way: compile ls from sources, but use gcc -static at the end so
it doesn't need shared libs. Works on all systems.
Hard way: update a *lot* more of lib, you need ld.so and/or
ld-linux.so, and you need to run ldc
>I've just enabled anonymous ftp to my Debian 1.1 Linux box according
>to the instructions in the ftpd manpage. All works fine, except that
>it appears that an anonymous ftp user cannot use the command "DIR"
>and "ls -l" doesn't work (both report no files). This works fine for
>regular users. I
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