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Title: Setting a FTP server

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Setting a FTP server

Applicable to
S.u.S.E. version: 4.3

Symptom:

The wu.ftpd is started by inetd without problems and the anonymous login works. Afterwards ls does not display clearly at all and a cd keeps without effect, even though ftpd accepts inmediately the order without complaining.

Cause:

A chroot to ~ftp is done for anonymous ftp. When programmes like ls are called there, they need both the C library in ~ftp/lib and the loader from Linux. Both things are in the packet ftpdir.

Solution:

  1. Install the packet ftpdir. The packet is not contained in some Linux Aktuell! CDs. You may get it via ftp from ftp.gwdg.de: The version for the 4.3 is e.g. in ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/cdroms/suse/4.3/suse/ap1/ftpdir.tgz

    In the next Aktuell! it will be, of course, in again.

  2. lcd without parameter does not work in ftp. Workaround: use lcd ~ , and then everything will work. Bug fix is in the todo liste. This is a ftp's bug and not a ftpd's.

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Keywords: FTP, AKTUELL, ANONYMOUS

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