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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Setting up an anonymous FTP site..
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.162137.26062@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 18 Jan 91 16:21:37 GMT
References: <20527@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp, San Jose, CA
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In article <20527@yunexus.YorkU.CA> giani@nexus.YorkU.CA (John Sfetsas) writes:
>The procedure you have to follow in order to create an anonymous FTP site
>is as follows :

While the explanation that followed was quite reasonable and correct
for many machines, it's probably better to tell people to refer to
their ftpd manual page.  On SVR4, for example, you also have to
create ~ftp/dev and put the appropriate entries in it (the commands
to do so are given in the manual page), and I suspect that there
are other systems with slight differences as well.