Subject: Re: Problem with ftpd needing inetd restart and other things

From: [email-masked] (Stan Barber)
Date: 26 Jan 1996 04:26:20 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> Dan Foster <[email-masked]> writes:
>	I was running 2.4.2 beta 8 for a while...now beta 9. The last few
>days before I upgraded to beta 9, I noticed that the ftp server doesn't
>seem to be responding to ftp connects "ftp: connection refused" (or something
>along those lines), but kill -HUP'ing inetd clears up the problem. The same
>is also true if I ftpshut the server, then delete the /etc/shutmsg file...
>I have to kill -HUP inetd to get ftp restarted. The problem is still around
>even though I have upgraded to beta 9.
>
>	Is this normal, a known feature, or a bug?

Folks tell me it is a bug, but I can't reproduce it on my test systems. I
am waiting for someone to provide me with a specific senario so I can 
reproduce it on one of my test systems (BSDI, Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, SunOS
or Solaris). If you can provide that, I can work on a fix. Unless I can
see the bug, I can't fix it.

>	Last thing. :) Virtual domains... I had enabled VD's in beta 7 and
>onward, but noticed that it seemed to break the 'upload' keyword, which
>I need at my site, so I disabled virtual domains. Does anybody know if this
>has since been fixed or where I could find a decent VD patch that doesn't
>break anything?

This is the first I have heard about this. Have you retested it in beta-9 to
see if it is still there? If you do find it, please let me know at
the [email-masked] address.

[I monitor this mailing list, but I can't promise I'll catch every bug report
posted here. Sending it to the [email-masked] address will get it
into the right queue for me to work on it.]

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From: Andrew Bennett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 00:03:20 -0800 (PST)

> see the bug, I can't fix it.

Whew.  I thought this was me.  Dan, I'm seeing sessions that should've idled
out hanging around on my machine (BSDI 2.0 with a few patches) as well.
I just installed beta-9, but I fear that won't fix the problem.  (I had
beta-8 previously, and previous to that the stock wu-ftpd on the bsdi cd
rom, which didn't allow files to be put in a directory with rights of 
rwx-wx-wx!)

Stan : Tomorrow at work I'll try and run some tests to see if I can
get the situation to happen under BSDI.  Wish me luck!

Andrew
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