Subject: ftpwho shows nothing

From: "Ralf Quebbemann" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 09:33:42 +0200

Hello,
I recently upgraded my RedHat Linux 5.2 to version 6.0 and now I have
problems with the ftpwho command. When I execute this command it shows
me no details but this:

Service class local: 
   -   0 users (  5 maximum)
Service class remote: 
    1 ?        S      0:03 init [3]
    1 ?        S      0:03 init [3]
    1 ?        S      0:03 init [3]
    1 ?        S      0:03 init [3]
    1 ?        S      0:03 init [3]
   -   5 users (  5 maximum)

What´s wrong ? Any ideas ?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

greetings

	Ralf
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From: "Ralf Quebbemann" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 09:52:43 +0200

Hello once again,
I fixed the problem by myself.

Ralf

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From: [email-masked] (Michael Schmidt)
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 10:04:26 +0200 (MET DST)

> From: "Ralf Quebbemann" <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: ftpwho shows nothing
> 
> Hello once again,
[...snipped...]

Hi,

would be fine to know what exactly caused the problem and 
what has been your fix, that may help others to learn from it.
Any feedback?

Have a nice day
Michael

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From: "Ralf Quebbemann" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 10:28:00 +0200

Hello,
in fact I scrolled down the WU-FTPD mailing archive and found several
article about this error.

For example:
Gregory A. Lundberg wrote:
"I use ps and grep: 

ps axwww | grep ftpd 

Redhat has a patch which adds this kind of capabililty to their RPM 
version. I'll probably be including their patch in a future version of 
the server"

I will search for this patch and try it out, but for the moment the
above command will do the same.

Hope it helps.

Ralf

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From: Gregory A Lundberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 09:13:19 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 6 May 1999, Ralf Quebbemann wrote:

> What´s wrong ? Any ideas ? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Looks like an old pid file laying about.  Check in /var/run for ftp pid
files and delete 'em all.

If that doesn't help, you might try upgrading to VR17.  I have GNU libc 6
patches available if you need them.

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From: Gregory A Lundberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 09:14:50 -0400 (EDT)

> above command will do the same.

Redhat's patch is in the SRPM.  It's buggy.  I fixed it when I included it
in VR17

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From: "Ralf Quebbemann" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 15:40:51 +0200

Hi,
deleting the ftp pid files doesn´t help. May I ask for the patches ?
Thank you

Ralf

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From: Gregory A Lundberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 09:47:26 -0400 (EDT)

> deleting the ftp pid files doesn´t help. May I ask for the patches ?

they're included in VR17, which is what you should be running anyway.

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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