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Date:      Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:33:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Status of lukemftpd? (was: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf (fwd))
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021108083228.16641D-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021105204013.GC56253@gits.dyndns.org>

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On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 12:33:41AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, David O'Brien wrote:
> > 
> > > > (1) All references to lukemftpd as "the ftpd" be corrected to indicate
> > > >     lukemftpd is not the default.  Most of these are leaked references
> > > >     from lukemftpd man pages that were not updated in the import.
> > > 
> > > We typically don't rewrite contrib'ed vendor branch code.  On some of my
> > > systems lukemftp is THE ftpd, so they do apply. 
> > 
> > Just to make it completely clear what I'm talking about here: we do have a
> > "the ftpd", because we install it as /usr/libexec/ftpd.  Lukemftpd is
> > installed as /usr/libexec/lukemftpd.  Documentation should refer to the
> > binaries and man pages correctly.  One specific example of this is
> > ftpd.conf(5), which incorrectly stats:
> 
> how about the following PR ?
> 
> 	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/39676

This PR looks like it would pretty cleanly address the first set of
problems I identified regarding the man pages being inaccurate.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories


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