Subject: problem seeing files...

From: Mike Shaw <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 13:00:12 -0500

I am running the Version wu-2.4.2-academ release on Solaris7 with anonymous 
and guest users configured.  

I have a problem where I can no longer see files in the anonymous area, but,
guest directories are ok using either an ftp client or web browser on our 
internal network.  Also external users with a browser cannot see the anonymous
directories but, if using a client ftp they are able to see the contents.

Permissions and ownership look correct.

Suggestions??

Thanks,

Mike

[email-masked]
Tel (512) 356 7400
Fax (512) 356 7600

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From: Gregory A Lundberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 14:29:47 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 7 May 1999, Mike Shaw wrote:

> I have a problem where I can no longer see files in the anonymous
> area, but, guest directories are ok using either an ftp client or web
> browser on our internal network.  Also external users with a browser
> cannot see the anonymous directories but, if using a client ftp they
> are able to see the contents.

Sounds like a missing library or device file.  This is a FAQ.

The location of the latest versions of wu-ftpd can be found in the 
directory
 
      ftp://ftp.vr.net/pub/wu-ftpd/
 
wu-ftpd Resource Center:  http://www.landfield.com/wu-ftpd/
wu-ftpd FAQ:              http://www.cetis.hvu.nl/~koos/wu-ftpd-faq.html
wu-ftpd list archive:     http://www.landfield.com/wu-ftpd/mail-archive/

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From: Jim Bostwick <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 15:32:35 -0500

Mike, 
	I learned something recently about this. I habitually use 'ls' from my
unix ftp client, and it's been working wonderfully. Thought I had
wu-ftpd set up properly. Then, discovered that from a PC (browser or
ws-ftp) no listings! It turns out that 'ls' uses a builtin nlist
function, while 'DIR' as emitted by the other clients, forks a copy of
/bin/ls. I had a broken /bin/ls; the fix is right there in the FAQ. You
learn something new every day. 

-j

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From: Gregory A Lundberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 09:02:36 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 7 May 1999, Jim Bostwick wrote:

> 	I learned something recently about this. I habitually use 'ls'
> from my unix ftp client, and it's been working wonderfully. Thought I
> had wu-ftpd set up properly. Then, discovered that from a PC (browser
> or ws-ftp) no listings! It turns out that 'ls' uses a builtin nlist
> /bin/ls. I had a broken /bin/ls; the fix is right there in the FAQ.
> You learn something new every day.

emitted --> typed by users.  LIST and NLST are emitted

ls vs dir --> which is LIST and which NLST, or when the client chooses one
over the other is different from client to client.

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