Subject: 'anonymous' problems

From: blue <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 01:24:51 -0500

Hi.  I'm aware that this _is_ addressed in the FAQ, but my problem seems
to be unique.  What is occuring is that when I try to LIST (~ftp/bin/ls)
files as the user 'anonymous', no files appear to be there, but I can
still make use of the other commands which prove that the files do
exist.  The file ~ftp/bin/ls does exist, 755, and statically linked
[ln(1)].  I also have the libs that ldd return in ~ftp/lib, and still no
results.  Does anyone know what the problem might be?  Thanks.
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From: Gregory A Lundberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 09:15:22 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 10 May 1999, blue wrote:

> Hi.  I'm aware that this _is_ addressed in the FAQ, but my problem
> seems to be unique.  What is occuring is that when I try to LIST
> (~ftp/bin/ls) files as the user 'anonymous', no files appear to be
> there, but I can still make use of the other commands which prove that
> the files do exist.  The file ~ftp/bin/ls does exist, 755, and
> statically linked [ln(1)].  I also have the libs that ldd return in
> ~ftp/lib, and still no results.  Does anyone know what the problem
> might be?  Thanks.

Yes, it's a FAQ.  Without knowing your system it's hard to guess what's
missing but you're missing _something_.

On Linux, for instance, ldd isn't very accurate.  If the application loads
a library on-the-fly (like Apache DSO, PAM or some of the resolver
libraries) ldd won't know about them.

On other systems, you're probably missing a device file.

All this is covered extensively in the FAQ and your problem is NOT unique
in any way.

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