Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:57:56 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Daniel Gerzo <danger@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/99912: Wrong documentation of /etc/ftpchroot Message-ID: <20060825145755.GA35322@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <6596234.20060825164956@rulez.sk> References: <200608221830.k7MIUO8a000355@freefall.freebsd.org> <C114C7A1.15343%ceri@submonkey.net> <6596234.20060825164956@rulez.sk>
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 04:49:56PM +0200, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> Hello Ceri,
>
> Friday, August 25, 2006, 4:28:33 PM, you wrote:
>
> > On 22/8/06 19:30, "Daniel Gerzo" <danger@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
> >> The following reply was made to PR docs/99912; it has been noted by GNATS.
> >>
> >> From: Daniel Gerzo <danger@FreeBSD.org>
> >> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, jakub.siroky@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.
Yep, yep and yep :)
Ceri
--
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-- Moliere
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