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Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 12:18:49 -0400
From: Omar Thameen <omar@clifford.inch.com>
To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
Cc: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>,
        Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org>, khetan@iafrica.com,
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Subject: Re: wu-ftpd doesn't tar or compress
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On Sun, Aug 03, 1997 at 11:14:56AM -0700, Annelise Anderson wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> > > On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Brian Somers wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > Wouldn't you need to add compress and tar binaries to ~ftp/bin so they
> > > > > will get executed after the chroot() in an anonymous login?
> > > > 
> > > > Yep, except you put them in ~ftp/usr/bin and create 
> > > > ~ftp/usr/lib/libc.so.... too.
> > > 
> > > Not if you yank them from /bin, they're statically linked there.
> > 
> 
> /usr/bin contains tar, bin, and compress on my system, of which
> only compress is dynamically linked according to ldd.   /stand
> doesn't contain compress.
> 
> /usr/bin/compress:
> 	-lc.3 => /usr/lib/libc.so.3.0 (0x801d000)
> 
> I tried putting compress in /home/ftp/bin and in /home/ftp/usr/bin,
> with the associated library in /home/ftp/lib and /home/ftp/usr/lib,
> but "get junk.tar.Z" still doesn't work--it creates a 0 byte file,
> even with ftpcompress changed to /usr/bin for .Z.
> However "get junk.tar.gz" does work. 
> 
> Annelise

You'll need to get the source for compress and compile it statically
(check the Makefile), then put it in the ~ftp/bin directory.

Omar