docs/99912: Wrong documentation of /etc/ftpchroot

[Daniel Gerzo]

Hello Ceri,

Friday, August 25, 2006, 4:28:33 PM, you wrote:

> On 22/8/06 19:30, "Daniel Gerzo" <danger at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>> The following reply was made to PR docs/99912; it has been noted by GNATS.
>> 
>> From: Daniel Gerzo <danger at FreeBSD.org>
>> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, jakub.siroky at atlas.cz
>> Cc:  
>> Subject: Re: docs/99912: Wrong documentation of /etc/ftpchroot
>> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:23:26 +0200
>> 
>>  Hello bug-followup,
>>  
>>    This is actually not described in ftpchroot manual page, but in
>>    ftpd.conf(5). I'm not sure if the described steps work though. The
>>    main problem is that the ftpd.conf(5) belongs to lukemftpd, which is
>>    contributed software from NetBSD and if the described process does
>>    not work, there is not much we can do about it. We don't usually
>>    modify contributed files. I would rather recommend you to address
>>    this to NetBSD team, if this is the case.

> No, because the problem is that the documentation is correct on NetBSD.  The
> problem arises because we have two different ftpd implementations that
> conflict badly.

> Personally I think that we should remove lukemftpd from the tree, or at
> least strongly urge the maintainer to correct these conflicts on import.
> Unfortunately there's not a good history of any response to this matter.

Well, we should beat some src committer to clean this crap out. It's
really confusing and I've been looking around what is going on there
for a few minutes, until I realized that we just have 2 different ftp
daemons in base and no one know what belongs to what.

> Ceri

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 Daniel                            mailto:danger at FreeBSD.org