Subject: Problem in wu-ftpd 2.4

From: Pete Glassenbury <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 09:21:58 +1300

Hi all,
	I have just received wu-ftpd 2.4 and installed it. I am having
problems setting up an incoming directory. The machine
it is running on us a Sparcstation 2 running 4.1.3 . It  is also 
a DISKLESS machine (I think that is part of the problem). We have
all our disks on a central server. The symptoms are....
	Things appear to work fine for outgoing. 
	I have set up the incoming directory to install files as
	   root mode 600 as in the example (tried 'bin' as well
	   but same problem)
	I can write as root into the directory (ie exported ok)
	When A file is 'put' into that directory it seems to work ok
		(ncftp and ftp both show it transfering)
	NcFTP /incoming ->put printcap
	printcap: 3218 bytes sent in 0.05 seconds, 69.73 K/s.

but the file, while existing and with the correct mode, is empty.

I get a message in the /var/adm/messages file of
Oct  9 08:26:16 kaka vmunix: NFS write error 13 on host huia 
	      fh 746 1 a0000 5fee5 52f2ea44 a0000 2 1e0a6aed 

the wuftp log says it was transferred ok

Mon Oct  9 08:26:15 1995 1 huia 3218 /incoming/printcap b _ i a
			   [email-masked] ftp 0 *

As I said above -- I can write in the directory and do everything
as root or bin but wuftpd doesn't seem to be able to.
All other parts seem to work ok.

Can someone shed some light on this ??

Thanks

Pete
Peter Glassenbury   ([email-masked])
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

BTW -- Does anyone know why the COPS security program says that ~ftp
should be owned by root and everywhere else seems to say make it owned by 'ftp'