Subject: Re: Problems with wu-ftpd-2.4.2-vr17.patch

From: Gregory A Lundberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 22:46:47 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, AMAN, ALICE L. (JSC-GT) wrote:

> I have only installed a couple of patches before. I must be doing
> something wrong.

Installing patches is probably it.  Very few people need them; you're
not one of them.

> My system (let's call oscar) is a Redhat Linux "hybrid" with the bare
> minimum from Redhat because I usually like to install the separate
> applications when possible myself. I turned on shadow password using
> "pwconv".  I think this means I'm running "PAM"? In any event, the
> "shadow password" function is working well.

Shadow passwords are not PAM.  PAM is PAM.  You probably don't need PAM
from the sound of things.  If it's there (which I doubt from what you're
saying) the build process will detect it and use it.

> Step 0. I installed wu-ftpd-2.4.2-vr17.tar.gz without any patch,
> encountered no errors during compilation or install. But am getting a
> "login failure" when trying to connect from another system (we'll call
> spooky). The remote system, Spooky, reflects the following error in
> the secure log ": execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory
> ". Spooky can connect to my other linux systems running Wu-FTPD vr14
> without a problem.

[snipping out everything you did wrong]

> Does any of the above reflect the correct appliation of the patch? Are
> my expections of seeing PAM options added to Makefile.lnx misguided?

Um, yes?  Or no.  Yes, you apply patches using the 'patch' command.  No,
you normally don't patch a patched file.  2.4.2.tar.gz + vr17.patch ->
2.4.2-vr17.tar.gz ..  what you did was 2.4.2-vr17.tar.gz - vr17.patch ->
messed up 2.4.2.tar.gz ..  You had them and took them out, along with
about 600,000 lines of corrections and additions to the daemon.

Go back, do step 0.  Stop at that point, you're done.  If it doesn't work,
from what you're saying, it's an incomplete or incorrect system install.

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