From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 1 05:12:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA24129 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 05:12:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA24124 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 05:12:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.7.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id FAA01995; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 05:12:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609011212.FAA01995@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Thomas J Balfe cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftpd? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 01 Sep 1996 07:54:07 EDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 05:12:31 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Strange. I wanted on the fly compression like wcarchive does, so I stuck >compress, tar and gzip in /usr/ftp/usr/bin, then chmod 111 them. I >changed /usr/local/etc/ftpconversions to reflect the chroot() binaries. >It works. Great. But, how? They are supposed to dynamically linked! Do they >inherit ftpd's libc and work that way or is it some sort of kernel thing >that isn't supposed to be that way or am I somewhat dazed and confused? >Now a sleepless night turns into a sleepless day. compress, tar, and gzip are built static, not dynamic. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project