Re: [Maybe Spam] Re: [tbox-l] wu-ftp issue

[David C. <cl...@au...>]

That's odd.  I don't know that much about wu-ftpd, but I just tried a compile
of it and my compile does include the "UNIX Type" string message.
In the code, the message appears in a preprocessor define such that it only
ever uses one or the other.  But the current Toolbox image shows the
"UNKNOWN Type":

$ strings /usr/sbin/wu.ftpd |grep UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN Type: L%d
$ strings /usr/sbin/wu.ftpd |grep UNIX   
$ 

But if I run 'strings' on the one I just compiled, I get UNIX and not UNKNOWN.
I don't know why that is so, but I'm rebuilding into an rpm package and will
try it out to see which message it gets.  If it works I'll put it on the FTP
site and will let you know.

Oh, and your patch question... they are just applied with the Toolbox (GNU)
patch command, and none of them change the file with that message in it.
I don't think they are related.


On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:11:00AM -0400, DSa...@us... wrote:
> Dear David,
> 
> Thank you for your info.  Another question if I may - the FTPX vendor says
> that this build of WU-FTPD doesn't interpret the SYST command properly, i.e
> returning:
> 
> 215 UNKNOWN Type: L8
> 
> Instead of the proper:
> 
> 215 UNIX Type: L8
> 
> Have you heard of this before, and would you have any advice?
> 
> Do any of the four patches have anything to do with this problem?  How are
> these patches applied?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Diane Saddler
> Systems Administrator
> IMS Health®
> 660 West Germantown Pike
> Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
> 610-834-5349
> dsa...@us...
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Clissold [mailto:cl...@au...]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 7:19 PM
> To: DSa...@us...
> Cc: aix...@ww...
> Subject: [Maybe Spam] Re: [tbox-l] wu-ftp issue
> 
> 
> Dianne,
> 
> You can see the "spec" file from which wu-ftpd was built, at:
> ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/SPECS/wu-ftpd-2.6.2-4
> .spec
> 
> And for source patches that were needed, you can find them in:
> ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/PATCHES
> 
> The source was built from the code downloaded from http://www.wu-ftpd.org/.
> The building of wu-ftpd just followed the typical "configure" and "make"
> pattern.  The guts of the build from the spec-file are this:
> 
> ############
> export CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -D_LARGE_FILES -D_AIX42 -DAIX"
> 
> ./configure --prefix=%{prefix} --sysconfdir=/etc --with-etc-dir=/etc
> perl -pi -e "s/L_FORMAT \"d/L_FORMAT \"lld/g" src/config.h
> make
> ############
> 
> Where %{prefix} equals "/opt/freeware".
> 
> No features were explicitly turned on or off.  I don't see anything in
> the configure help that refers to "FTP Explorer", but you can take a look
> yourself.  Most packages here are built with mostly default values, but
> perhaps there's some other option available that has what you are looking
> for.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:35:51AM -0400, DSa...@us... wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We are using the WU-FTP RPM package and are having issues with the FTP
> > Explorer client in listing files using this package.  Is the Makefile, and
> > any other customizations made to the compile available, in case certain
> > features were turned on/off?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Diane Saddler
> > Systems Administrator
> > IMS Health®
> > 660 West Germantown Pike
> > Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
> > 610-834-5349
> > dsa...@us...
> > 
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> David Clissold
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