>I'm having problems listing the contents of some sites.

Are you sure this is your problem and not the sites' problem? I have been having
a similar problem coming to our office ftp site from behind my masq machine at
home and we were just investigating last night. Here is part of a report which
might be useful (but I haven't yet checked that the problem has been fixed from
home).

:Although "ls" worked from many (most?) places, I found that even where
:"ls" worked, "ls -l" did not.  From the messages, it appears that the
:reason that some ftp clients (e.g. linux?) can not issue an "ls"  may be
:be that they are actually sending an "ls -l" command.

:To simulate an anonymous user, you can sign on to the server as root and
:use commands like:

:chroot .../ftp /bin/ls
:or
:chroot .../ftp/bin/ls -l

:I found that when I did this, I got errors that mentioned problems with
:/usr/lib/libc.so.1

:This reminded me that the contents of .../ftp/usr/lib have been
:unchanged since anonymous ftp was first set up under some older version
:of solaris.  So I replaced the files in .../ftp/lib by the current
:versions in /usr/lib and also the file .../ftp/bin/ls by the current
:version of /bin/ls

:As a result,  chroot .../ftp/bin/ls -l  now works as does "ls -l" when
:you log in anonymously.    Hopefully, this will fix some of the problems
:that people have been having with their ftps.

Paul Gilbert


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