Re: How do I log onto anonymous ftp ?

2003-08-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:44:20PM +0100, David selby wrote: NcFTP 3.1.3 (Mar 27, 2002) by Mike Gleason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Could not connect to 216.37.46.132 -- try again later: Connection timed out. The site is down. I don't think

How do I log onto anonymous ftp ?

2003-08-01 Thread David selby
]:~$ ncftp -u anonymous ftp://www.progeny.com NcFTP 3.1.3 (Mar 27, 2002) by Mike Gleason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Could not connect to 216.37.46.132 -- try again later: Connection timed out. Could not connect to 216.37.46.132 -- try again later: Connection timed out. Could

Re: How do I log onto anonymous ftp ?

2003-08-01 Thread Clement Hermann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ncftp -u anonymous ftp://www.progeny.com NcFTP 3.1.3 (Mar 27, 2002) by Mike Gleason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Could not connect to 216.37.46.132 -- try again later: Connection timed out. Could not connect to 216.37.46.132 -- try again later: Connection timed out

Re: How do I log onto anonymous ftp ?

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
. Canonically, though, you can use anonymous FTP with a username of 'anonymous' (or sometimes 'ftp') and your e-mail address (really, any string) as a password. I'd expect that ncftp's defaults would do this (using [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a password) in the absence of an explicit username. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How do I log onto anonymous ftp ?

2003-08-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
before. I have tried [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ncftp -u anonymous ftp://www.progeny.com You say you want to connect to archive.progeny.com, so why do you try to connect to www.progeny.com instead? Many servers allow anonymous logins and ask you to enter your email address as your password

Re: How do I log onto anonymous ftp ?

2003-08-01 Thread David selby
Many thanks everyone, now logged in Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wu-ftp: userlimit/anonymous-ftp

2002-03-15 Thread Carsten Vogel
At 00:18 15.03.02 +0100, you wrote: wenn Du den Server über xinetd startest bei instances ? Ist nicht der Fall, benutze den Standard-Inetd... Was mir vorhin noch aufgefallen ist: Von nur einem anderen Computer kann ich 5 anonymous-ftp-verbindungen aufbauen. Anscheinend können also nur nicht

wu-ftp: userlimit/anonymous-ftp

2002-03-14 Thread Carsten Vogel
Auf meinem System (Woody) läuft ein wu-ftp-Server (wu-2.6.1). Es kann sich bei mir komischerweise nur einer per anonymous-ftp anmelden, obwohl ich in der /etc/wu-ftpd/ftpaccess die Zahl der User auf 5 gesetzt habe: # Limit who how manydate/time message file limit all 5

Re: wu-ftp: userlimit/anonymous-ftp

2002-03-14 Thread Ulrich Wiederhold
* Carsten Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020314 20:25]: Gibts noch andere Stellen, an denen ich etwas hätte konfigurieren müssen? Hi, wenn Du den Server über xinetd startest bei instances ? Gruß Uli -- 'The box said, 'Requires Windows 95 or better', so i installed Linux - TKK 5 -- Zum AUSTRAGEN

Re: Anonymous FTP

2001-01-12 Thread Jorgensen, Jens
Why not HTTP PUT ? Robert Kerr wrote: Hi all, Due to a bug in FTP, we're going to lose our anonymous ftp privileges at my place of work. We depend heavily upon anonymous ftp to update certain files and such on a machine that is outside our firewall. What kind of replacements

Anonymous FTP

2001-01-11 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, Due to a bug in FTP, we're going to lose our anonymous ftp privileges at my place of work. We depend heavily upon anonymous ftp to update certain files and such on a machine that is outside our firewall. What kind of replacements are available to allow unattended transfer of files from

RE: Anonymous FTP

2001-01-11 Thread Jason Mogavero
it to be and how sensitive the information is. Jason -Original Message- From: Robert Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 2:39 PM To: Debian List Subject: Anonymous FTP Hi all, Due to a bug in FTP, we're going to lose our anonymous ftp privileges at my place

Re: Anonymous FTP

2001-01-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hi all, Due to a bug in FTP, we're going to lose our anonymous ftp privileges at my place of work. Out of curiosity, why are the FTP privileges going away? We depend heavily upon anonymous ftp to update certain files

RE: Anonymous FTP

2001-01-11 Thread Robert Kerr
on how secure you need it to be and how sensitive the information is. Jason -Original Message- From: Robert Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 2:39 PM To: Debian List Subject: Anonymous FTP Hi all, Due to a bug in FTP, we're going to lose our

RE: Anonymous FTP

2001-01-11 Thread Jason Mogavero
-Original Message- From: Robert Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 4:08 PM To: Jason Mogavero Cc: Debian List Subject: RE: Anonymous FTP I was under the impression that I couldn't run scp unattended. Is that not correct? Well, unless you use .shost files

Re: Anonymous FTP

2001-01-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:07:45PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jason Mogavero wrote: If you use ssh to administer the machines that need to transfer files, you can use scp, which is an encrypted file transfer method using the ssh daemon. If you're transferring files

Re: Anonymous FTP

2001-01-11 Thread Brian May
Jason == Jason Mogavero [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jason Someone else mentioned using rsync tunneled through ssh, Jason which isn't a bad idea either, but I think scp is more Jason suited to scripting as long as the host files are set up Jason correctly. Why? Personally, I see

RE: Anonymous FTP

2001-01-11 Thread Jason Mogavero
to) -Original Message- From: Brian May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 4:36 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Anonymous FTP Why? Personally, I see rsync as having one major benefit. It works over a rsh link too. scp only supports an ssh link (AFAIK). rsh

anonymous ftp/potato

2000-08-17 Thread Neil . L . Roeth
Can someone tell me how to set up anonymous ftp on a potato system? Including changes required for /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/pam.d/ftp, etc.? I added the user ftp, modified the PAM ftp file by commenting out one line, and it allows me to log in as anonymous, but when I do an ls it shows

ls doesn't work on my Anonymous FTP!

1999-11-12 Thread Jens K. Olsen
I have set up an anonymous FTP according to the guidelines in the ftpd man page. Everything seems to work fine, except ls. When I do ls, I get no information. pwd gives me the correct path. I have tried to give full permission to everything in ~/ftp, but ls still does not give anything. Any ideas

Re: ls doesn't work on my Anonymous FTP!

1999-11-12 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 07:18:17AM +, Jens K. Olsen wrote: I have set up an anonymous FTP according to the guidelines in the ftpd man page. Everything seems to work fine, except ls. When I do ls, I get no information. pwd gives me the correct path. I have tried to give full permission

Re: ls doesn't work on my Anonymous FTP!

1999-11-12 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Your ls binary must be staticaly linked against its libraries, or you have to put those under ~/ftp/lib Cheers. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potenciado por

Re: non-anonymous ftp with MC?

1999-03-17 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 07:26:08PM +0900, chul-yong,shin wrote: The only thing that I can get from MC home page is type cd ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]. This example doen't tell me how to input passwd. Did you ever try? It will prompt you for the password. cu Torsten pgpQI0QpdhlU1.pgp

non-anonymous ftp with MC?

1999-03-02 Thread chul-yong,shin
Question. How do I do non-anonymous ftp with MC? I want to connect to SUN with user id and password. But I can not. The only thing that I can get from MC home page is type cd ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]. This example doen't tell me how to input passwd

Re: non-anonymous ftp with MC?

1999-03-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 07:26:08PM +0900, chul-yong,shin wrote: Question. How do I do non-anonymous ftp with MC? I want to connect to SUN with user id and password. But I can not. The only thing that I can get from MC home page is type cd ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]. This example

Re: non-anonymous ftp with MC?

1999-03-02 Thread Tumyp S. Sattaroff
chul-yong,shin wrote: Question. How do I do non-anonymous ftp with MC? Press ESC then c, in the window type : ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED] then Enter -- Bye TimHisTeam

anonymous ftp in Debian2.0

1999-02-18 Thread Jan Krupa
I use debian2.0 and I do not have the directory /home/ftp so there is no access to the machine via anonymous ftp. What debian package should I install to get the directory /home/ftp and access to machine via anonymous ftp. Jan Please send the answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: anonymous ftp in Debian2.0

1999-02-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JK == Jan Krupa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JK I use debian2.0 and I do not have the directory /home/ftp so there JK is no access to the machine via anonymous ftp. What debian JK package should I install to get the directory /home/ftp and access JK to machine via anonymous ftp. You need one

Re: Creando Anonymous FTP

1998-11-30 Thread Jose Luis Trivino
Ramiro Alba Queipo wrote: Hola a todos: Estoy intentando poner en marcha un FTP anonymous con el unico proposito de poner en RED un CD de datos. Consigo conectarme sin problemas, pero cuando hago 'ls' NO VEO NADA y sin embargo la informacion está ahi porque puede cambiarme con cd

Creando Anonymous FTP

1998-11-27 Thread Ramiro Alba Queipo
Hola a todos: Estoy intentando poner en marcha un FTP anonymous con el unico proposito de poner en RED un CD de datos. Consigo conectarme sin problemas, pero cuando hago 'ls' NO VEO NADA y sin embargo la informacion está ahi porque puede cambiarme con cd a los direcctorios del CD-ROM. La

Re: anonymous ftp

1998-09-17 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Eric Jensen wrote: Ya, I can't get the uid/gid to work either. I too copied over group. However, I can't find what they're talking about in the manpage for in.ftpd in regards to the password database. What is pw_mkdb and where can I find it? That's exactly what I want

Re: anonymous ftp

1998-09-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Eric Jensen wrote: Well, I reinstalled the debs, and it didn't help..same problems. Anyone else got ideas? I just created an anonymous ftp account for my system, copied the libs from /lib as specified below, and it worked fine. On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Thomas Apel wrote

Re: anonymous ftp

1998-09-16 Thread Eric Jensen
, Michael Beattie wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Eric Jensen wrote: Well, I reinstalled the debs, and it didn't help..same problems. Anyone else got ideas? I just created an anonymous ftp account for my system, copied the libs from /lib as specified below, and it worked fine

Re: anonymous ftp

1998-09-16 Thread Eric Jensen
Ya, I can't get the uid/gid to work either. I too copied over group. However, I can't find what they're talking about in the manpage for in.ftpd in regards to the password database. What is pw_mkdb and where can I find it? _ _ | |(_) http://www.iit.edu/~jenseri | _| | | ICQ

disable anonymous ftp?

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
To fiddle withe the /etc/passwd file is one way to disable anonymous ftp. But what ist the 'natural' way? I use wu-ftp. Stef

Re: anonymous ftp

1998-09-15 Thread Eric Jensen
1998, Thomas Apel wrote: Eric Jensen wrote: I've been having some problems getting anonymous ftp to work properly on my system. I've set up most everything in the way that the manpage for in.ftpd told me too, but it refers to a program pw_mkdb which I can't seem to find anywhere

Re: anonymous ftp

1998-09-15 Thread mwb
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Eric Jensen wrote: Well, I reinstalled the debs, and it didn't help..same problems. Anyone else got ideas? I had problems using wu-ftp. I switched to pro-ftp. Mark

Re: anonymous ftp

1998-09-15 Thread Eric Jensen
oops...I apologize...I meant to respond to the problem I've been having with kde...I got anonymous ftp working fine by adding those libs. sorry guys. _ _ | |(_) http://www.iit.edu/~jenseri | _| | | ICQ #19022931 | |___ | | Page me via ICQ at |__/ | http

anonymous ftp

1998-09-14 Thread Eric Jensen
I've been having some problems getting anonymous ftp to work properly on my system. I've set up most everything in the way that the manpage for in.ftpd told me too, but it refers to a program pw_mkdb which I can't seem to find anywhere. In any case, I don't believe that the lack of a pw.db file

Re: anonymous ftp

1998-09-14 Thread Thomas Apel
Eric Jensen wrote: I've been having some problems getting anonymous ftp to work properly on my system. I've set up most everything in the way that the manpage for in.ftpd told me too, but it refers to a program pw_mkdb which I can't seem to find anywhere. In any case, I don't believe

Anonymous ftp times incorrect?

1998-08-12 Thread Colin Telmer
with no avail. The one strange thing that I have run across is the anonymous ftp sessions seem to add EST to an EST clock. User ftps don't. Does anyone have any idea why this is? Any help is gratefully appreciated. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: wu-ftpd and anonymous ftp

1998-03-06 Thread Jim
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Jason Ish wrote: I'm running hamm and have just installed the wu-ftpd server for the purpose of an anonymous ftp account. I thought I had everything working, or so it appeared to work from any command line ftp client (linux/win95), but when a friend tried to get

wu-ftpd and anonymous ftp

1998-03-04 Thread Jason Ish
I'm running hamm and have just installed the wu-ftpd server for the purpose of an anonymous ftp account. I thought I had everything working, or so it appeared to work from any command line ftp client (linux/win95), but when a friend tried to get to it using wsftp, no directory listing was given

Re: wu-ftpd and anonymous ftp

1998-03-04 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Jason Ish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running hamm and have just installed the wu-ftpd server for the purpose of an anonymous ftp account. I thought I had everything working, or so it appeared to work from any command line ftp client (linux/win95), but when a friend tried to get

Re: wu-ftpd and anonymous ftp

1998-03-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Jason Ish wrote: I'm running hamm and have just installed the wu-ftpd server for the purpose of an anonymous ftp account. I thought I had everything working, or so it appeared to work from any command line ftp client (linux/win95), but when a friend tried to get

Re: ls doesn't work with anonymous ftp (wu-ftpd-academ, hamm)

1998-02-28 Thread Joel Klecker
At 15:32 -0500 1998-02-27, Nelson, R.A \(Richard/Rick\) wrote: I've got ls working - using libc6... but the owner/gid names are not displayed, only the numeric values. I verified that Joel's system exhibits the same problems! We must be missing something in ~ftp/etc that deals with the getgrnam

ls doesn't work with anonymous ftp (wu-ftpd-academ, hamm)

1998-02-27 Thread Nelson, R.A \(Richard/Rick\)
I've got ls working - using libc6... but the owner/gid names are not displayed, only the numeric values. I verified that Joel's system exhibits the same problems! We must be missing something in ~ftp/etc that deals with the getgrnam and related calls. This problem is new with libc6... Richard

anonymous ftp permissions

1998-02-24 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everybody, I have an anonymous ftp site up and running. I want to add some debian stuff to it. The debian is on another drive. There was talk about mounting the drive under the anonymous directory tree. I can't use hardlinks on different drives and/or partitions or filesystems. I

Re: anonymous ftp permissions

1998-02-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Paul McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: add some debian stuff to it. The debian is on another drive. There was talk about mounting the drive under the anonymous directory tree. I can't use hardlinks on different drives and/or partitions or filesystems. I was wondering why I can't use

ls doesn't work with anonymous ftp (wu-ftpd, hamm)

1998-02-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
With the hamm version of wu-ftpd (also wu-ftpd-academ), an anonymous user gets nothing returned with the ls command: ftp ls -al 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. 226 Transfer complete. ftp The installed ftpaccess file is identical to the one on my

Re: ls doesn't work with anonymous ftp (wu-ftpd, hamm)

1998-02-23 Thread Joel Klecker
At 12:00 -0700 1998-02-23, Bob Nielsen wrote: With the hamm version of wu-ftpd (also wu-ftpd-academ), an anonymous user gets nothing returned with the ls command: [snip] Am I missing something here? The hamm wu-ftpd and wu-ftpd-academ packages have a script that configures anonymous FTP

ls for anonymous ftp

1997-11-29 Thread M. W. Blunier
Is there a package that provides an ls with statically linked libs, or a package that will set up the ~ftp heirarchy so that anonymous ftps can use ls? Thanks Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: ls for anonymous ftp

1997-11-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, M. W. Blunier wrote: Is there a package that provides an ls with statically linked libs, or a package that will set up the ~ftp heirarchy so that anonymous ftps can use ls? Wu-ftp has a script to set up the libraries. I think it's called makeftpuser or something (look in

Re: ls for anonymous ftp

1997-11-29 Thread Wintermute
PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Although I'm not exactly sure I understand the problem, I assume you are having trouble getting ls to work with anonymous ftp users..? Explain in more detail -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: anonymous ftp/wu-ftp/addftpuser

1997-07-24 Thread Lindsay Allen
This was covered in the list some time back. If you ldd /home/ftp/bin/ls it will tell you what version of libc it is linked against. elm# ldd ls libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000a000) Then ls -l /home/ftp/lib and see if you have the right version. elm# ll ../bin total 583

Re: anonymous ftp/wu-ftp/addftpuser

1997-07-24 Thread Rob MacWilliams
anonymous ftp users can't see any directories.. they can change to them, but can see anything...??? I used the package defaults.. what could be wrong? -Paul Did you try the addftpuser script? I can't seem to find the docs on it right now, but I had a similar problem and this fixed

anonymous ftp/wu-ftp/addftpuser

1997-07-23 Thread Paul Miller
anonymous ftp users can't see any directories.. they can change to them, but can see anything...??? I used the package defaults.. what could be wrong? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: anonymous ftp/wu-ftp/addftpuser

1997-07-23 Thread Paul Miller
Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: Hi Paul Did you try to configure manually the properties of these directories? For example, if you have a directory /pub and want an anonymous either *read* it, type chmod 5 /pub or *read n'write* it, type chmod 7 /pub. Regards Bruno I already check that..

Re: anonymous ftp/wu-ftp/addftpuser

1997-07-23 Thread Kevin Traas
Did you try to configure manually the properties of these directories? For example, if you have a directory /pub and want an anonymous either *read* it, type chmod 5 /pub or *read n'write* it, type chmod 7 /pub. Regards Bruno I already check that.. the ftp (anonymous) user has

Re: anonymous ftp/wu-ftp/addftpuser

1997-07-23 Thread Paul Miller
Kevin Traas wrote: I ran into this exact same problem Extremely frustrating!!! Unfortunately, this was about 6 months ago, and, of course, I didn't document the solution (I'm always meaning to get around to thatgrin...) However, I seem to remember that my problem was with

Majordomo anonymous ftp

1997-06-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
1- Does a package exist for the Majordomo mailing list handler? Or do I install it from scratch? The installed /etc/passwd file has an entry for Majordomo, yet I can't find this package using the www.debian.org search engine. 2- There's no anonymous ftp account on a Debian

Re: Majordomo anonymous ftp

1997-06-29 Thread Kevin Traas
can't check right now 2- There's no anonymous ftp account on a Debian installation? I'm quite surprised. Do I install it fro scratch? Install the package wu-ftp. During install, you will be asked if you want an Anonymous FTP account created. Thanks again for all your help

Re: Anonymous ftp via apache?

1997-05-03 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Fri, 2 May 1997, Colin Telmer wrote: I am running frozen (ie new web standard) and would like to link my anonymous ftp site to my web page. I was just going to create a link from something in /var/www to something in /home/ftp but I thought I would ask if there is a standard way to do

Anonymous ftp via apache?

1997-05-02 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am running frozen (ie new web standard) and would like to link my anonymous ftp site to my web page. I was just going to create a link from something in /var/www to something in /home/ftp but I thought I would ask if there is a standard way to do

Re: Anonymous ftp and the ls command.

1996-09-14 Thread Mark Eichin
doesn't wu-ftpd use builtin code for simple ls?

Re: Anonymous ftp and the ls command.

1996-09-14 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Mark Eichin wrote: doesn't wu-ftpd use builtin code for simple ls? I don't know but I haven't installed wu-ftpd myself, only the standard ftpd that comes with the netstd package. Maybe the solution to my problem is just to install this package. Pedro Ivan --

Anonymous ftp and the ls command.

1996-09-12 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I have debian 1.1 and I installed an anonymous ftp service. It works fine except for an annoying problem: ftp users can always see the files in the ftp site even though there is no ls binary under the bin directory of ~ftp. I understand that ftp users will only be able to execute commands

Re: Anonymous ftp and the ls command.

1996-09-12 Thread Brian C. White
I have debian 1.1 and I installed an anonymous ftp service. It works fine except for an annoying problem: ftp users can always see the files in the ftp site even though there is no ls binary under the bin directory of ~ftp. The chroot is only done for _anonymous_ ftp and thus only this login

Re: Anonymous ftp and the ls command.

1996-09-12 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
This is exactly my problem. The _anonymous_ users still can use the ls command even though there is no ~ftp/bin/ls binary! How's that possible? Pedro Ivan -- Brian C. White wrote: I have debian 1.1 and I installed an anonymous ftp service. It works fine except for an annoying

Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp

1996-05-04 Thread Brian C. White
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.4.6.27

Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp

1996-05-04 Thread David M Smith
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 an anon-ftp

Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp

1996-05-04 Thread Ian Jackson
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 changed

Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp

1996-05-04 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
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 Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp

1996-05-04 Thread Ian Jackson
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 handle this or include a script to do so... even if it Mark means dpkg --root ~ftp

Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp

1996-05-04 Thread Alexander Goldstein
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 there.

Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp

1996-05-03 Thread David M Smith
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 simply

Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp

1996-05-03 Thread Richard Kettlewell
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 simply

Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp

1996-05-03 Thread Mark Eichin
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