Subject: MacIntosh Fetch problems with wuarchive ftpd

From: Jeffrey Weiss <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 14:15:56 -0500 (CDT)

I wonder if others have also noticed some peculiarities with Mac 
"fetch", an ftp client, when connecting to a UNIX system running the 
wu-ftpd.

It seems that if one ftp's into a named, chrooted account on Soalris, at 
least, one cannot see what one has placed there. But transfers do seem to 
work

PC and UNIX clients work fine. So permissions cannot be the problem

Any ideas?

wu-ftpd-2.4   and Solaris 2.3

Thanks,

jeff weiss

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From: sage jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 15:28:28 -0400 (EDT)

> wu-ftpd-2.4   and Solaris 2.3

Sounds like the problem I was having.  Check your "ls -l" on your server 
from your chrooted account and see if it still lets you veiw your files 
on a character based ftp client.  If it doesn't, you need to use a 
statically complied ls (/sbin/ls) and put it into your ~ftp/bin directory.

(the "ls" command works without it but the "ls -l" doesn't, your mac client
is probably using the "ls -l" to show directories).

				Sage

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From: Andrew Cormack <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 08:40:34 +0100 (BST)

> "fetch", an ftp client, when connecting to a UNIX system running the 

I've had reports that "fetch" is not happy if it can't work out the full
file name on the remote site. If your ftp daemon does a chroot then, of
course, fetch can't see above the 'new' root directory and complains. Our
users (of an anonymous ftp site) have only reported spurious error
messages, not being unable to read directories, so this may be either a
different result of the same problem, or a completely different problem. 
Ours is satisfied by telling users not to worry about it ! 

Hope this is some help,
Andrew

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