Subject: Traverse links with wu-ftpd

From: "Javier Puche" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 11:39:46 +0200

Hello people at wu-ftpd list,

 I am new to this list so I beg your pardon if what I am asking it has
been asked many other times. I hope this is the place to ask about it as
I did not find an answer in many other places I tried.

 Let me introduce myself first. I am one of the two information systems
worker at RedIRIS, the Spanish Academic and Research network. I am also
currently studing computer science at university.

 I am using wu-ftpd 2.4 for the anonymous ftp's of my organization. In
the ftp files hierarchy there are many symbolic links of directories. I
would like users conecting through an ftp client to get the same
behaviour as when using bash, i.e. if you cd into a symlink to a
directory and then up again (cd ..), you return to the same point you
were and not to the parent of the real dir the symlink is pointing to. I
hope the explanation is clear.

 It seems to me that some ftp servers running wu-ftpd behave like that,
but I did obtain no answer when asking their managers.

 Another thing I would like to ask is about the current patch level of
wu-ftpd-2.4 and where to get the beta 2.4.2 and how reliable it is. I do
not get to understand the patch numbers. I connect to some servers that
display wu-ftpd 2.4(39) or any other number, but any wu-ftpd I download
has the patch number fixed to 1, and if I apply the pathes I found in
some ftp's it creates a shell script "newvers.h" that lets you increase
by 1 the patch number found in the "edit" file.

 I would appreciate a lot anyone telling me about these things or where
to find information, as well as the most reliable place to get the last
releases of wu-ftpd.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,  
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