Hello all,
I'm hoping someone on the list can help me out with a problem I'm having
(or at least point me in the direction of a RTFM). I've got my laptop
set up as a local rsync and source mirror for a PC at work and another
laptop at home. The laptop has /usr/portage shared anonymously, so
whatever distfile it's already downloaded, the other computers don't
need to go out to the Internet to retrieve. This has been working for a
little while now. However, recently I noticed that one of the local
computers were going out to the Internet to retrieve the newest
gentoo-sources, which I knew had already been downloaded on the mirror
laptop. Looking further, I found that when I try to log into the laptop
as anonymous, I get a 530-Unable to set anonymous privileges error, and
in /var/log/messages, I see: ftp: Directory /usr/portage/ is not accessible.
This setup used to work for a while, but looking back through
/var/log/messages, it appears this started on 1 Sept. Going back
through my emerge.log shows that the previous day, Portage had updated
wine, and installed bar. Then later that day, I must have changed a USE
flag for hal, because then I see policykit being installed, then hal
being rebuilt. Then I was trying to help a friend get data off a disk
their kids had wiped, so I installed testdisk, gpart and gparted.
The next day sees iputils, apache-tools, apache, docbook-xml-dtd-4.2,
and deskbar-applet being updated. I was having troubles with the
upgrade-then-downgrade of dhcpcd and upgrade of gentoo-sources-2.6.35,
so later that day saw me unmasking dhcpcd-5.2.7 and re-upgrading that.
As far as I can tell, ProFTPd should be trying to access that folder
with the ftp account that Portage set up for me. And permissions on
both /usr and /usr/portage give r-x to other. So if I understand
correctly, it *should* be able to access that folder, at least
read-only. Changing it to rwx for other doesn't fix it, either.
Attached is my proftpd.conf, as configured according to
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Setup_local_Portage_and_Package_Mirror
(and which had been worked previously). Any help would be appreciated.
Jake Moe
ServerName "aus10224"
ServerType standalone
DefaultServer on
RequireValidShell off
AuthPAM off
AuthPAMConfig ftp
Port 21
Umask 022
MaxInstances 30
User ftp
Group ftp
# These need to be changed to use the standard "ftp" user and group.
<Anonymous /usr/portage>
User ftp
Group ftp
UserAlias anonymous ftp
<Limit WRITE>
DenyAll
</Limit>
</Anonymous>
