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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 1997 12:49:45 -0800 (PST)
From:      Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "no ld.so" when ftp'ing
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970210124744.17526A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970210094319.195C-100000@localhost>

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On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Doug White wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote:
> 
> > I've been getting some unexpected errors (the best kind) when 
> > ftp'ing to my FreeBSD 2.1.5R machine running vanilla ftpd.
> > 
> > 1) When I'm logged in as a real user (e.g. ben) locally or remotely, I 
> > can do ls or dir with no problems.
> > 
> > 2) When I'm logged in as anonymous or ftp *from a remote site*, I can do 
> > ls but dir gets me "no ld.so".
> 
> You need to copy ls from /bin to ~ftp/bin, since anonymous logins are

I tried this.

> chroot()ed to ~ftp/, which means that ~ftp becomes the root directory (/)
> for that process . See the ftpd(8) man page for instructions on setting up
> anonymous logins.
>
> > The only other data point I can think of that might be relevant is that I 
> > replaced /bin/ls with a statically-compiled version of the colorls port, 
> > renaming the old ls to ls.old.
> 
> Are you sure it compiled statically?  It's acting like it didn't.

Well, I thought the same thing.  But I ran file(1) and ldd(1) on it, and 
neither of them seemed to think it was dynamic.
 
> > I've tried symlinking and alternately copying /usr/libexec/ld.so to 
> > /var/ftp, with no effect.
> 
> You'd have to create ~ftp/usr/libexec/ and copy ld.so there.  But you need
> to check and make extra sure that colorls was properly compiled.

I'll try this next.

> Note that many ftp clients won't grok color ANSI codes properly, so this
> is a bit of a waste, IMHO.  

There also is no way to send the -G option, as far as I know, which turns
the codes on in the first place.  It's not a matter of getting colorls
working, it's a matter of getting ls at all! 

> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
> 



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."




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