[17590] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux : ftpd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Mon Feb 28 11:23:42 2000
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 28 Feb 2000 11:23:38 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Christopher D. Beland"'s message of "Mon, 28 Feb 2000 04:09:04 -0500"
Message-Id: <u1h1z5x8fed.fsf@alice-whacker.mit.edu>
"Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > What were you trying to do?
>
> Install anonymous FTP server with command:
>
> rpm -iUh wu-ftpd-2.6.0-2.i386.rpm anonftp-3.0-3.i386.rpm
That will cause a conflict.
> > What's wrong:
>
> file /etc/ftpusers from install of wu-ftpd-2.6.0-2 conflicts with file
> from package athena-krb5-8.3-25
Right.
> Note that these are the most updated packages; the ones in the
> redhat-6.1 distribution
> (/afs/athena/system/rhlinux/redhat-6.1/RedHat/RPMS/) are a bit out of
> date.
Not out of date, but rather the latest released one from Red Hat. The
package you installed is part of Raw Hide; I have no objection to you
using it, but we want to stick with the stabler official releases for
the cluster machines.
> If this isn't the Right Way to get anonymous FTP, please let me
> know. 8)
It's not. The right way is to use the ftpd that already comes in the
athena-krb5 package; it's /usr/athena/etc/ftpd, and you'll want to add
a line to /etc/inetd.conf or /etc/athena/inetd.conf. (I'd suggest the
latter.)
Thomas
