Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Path: utzoo!utgpu!dennis
From: dennis@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Dennis Ferguson)
Subject: Re: help with ftpd
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.205749.26919@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: none
References: <1991Feb11.210553.553@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1991Feb12.122613@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 1991 20:57:49 GMT

In article <1991Feb12.122613@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> webb@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Bill Webb) writes:
>In article <1991Feb11.210553.553@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, irvin@northstar7 (Tim Irvin) writes:
>|> I am trying to fix a bug with the ftpd on an RT running AOS. 
[...]
>Since I couldn't recreate it it's hard to diagnose what the problem was. I 
>suggest you recompile the ORIGINAL sources and see if the problem still
>exists. Here's an ls -l on the sources I used:
>
>total 55
>drwxrwxr-x  2 webb     audit         512 Feb 12 12:30 .
>drwxrwxr-x  7 webb     audit        1024 Feb 12 11:56 ..
>-rw-r--r--  1 root     system        716 Dec  9  1988 Makefile
>-rw-r--r--  1 root     system      16219 Dec  9  1988 ftpcmd.y
>-rw-r--r--  1 root     system      24168 Dec  9  1988 ftpd.c
>-rw-r--r--  1 root     system       9843 Dec  9  1988 glob.c
>-rw-r--r--  1 root     system        665 Dec  9  1988 newvers.sh
>-rw-r--r--  1 webb     audit          63 Feb 12 12:00 vers.c
>-rw-r--r--  1 webb     audit           4 Feb 12 12:00 version

This ftpd is actually quite crufty and old, and if I'm not mistaken
suffers from a bug which is a lot more infamous than the one mentioned.
If one were spending time recompiling the ftp daemon anyway, it might be
better to obtain a newer version of the software and work with that
instead.

Dennis Ferguson
University of Toronto