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Larry Doolittle (doolitt@recycle.cebaf.gov) wrote:
> Al Longyear (longyear@netcom.com) wrote:
> : hjp3@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (park hee-joon) writes:

> : >well,this works fine.I had no problem with the connection.
> : >but,whenever the anonymous users in my ftp server issue 
> : >commands like 'dir' or 'ls'
> : >it displays nothing even though there is for sure something!!!!

> : The most common cause for this problem is that you are using a "ls"
> : program which requires shared libraries and you don't have a copy 
> : of the libc.so and ld.so files in ~ftp/lib.

> Either that, or the path for ls is hard-coded in the ftp binary,
> and that path is not where your ls is installed.  For example,
> I ran into a machine recently where the ftp binary had a
> "/bin/ls" coded into it (found with a "strings ftp | grep /")
> but the system had ls installed in /usr/bin/ls.  A quick
> soft-link cured the problem.

It's also worth knowing that the ftp daemon changes it's root
to the ftp directory tree. This means that when ftpd uses
/bin/ls it gets translated by the system into ~ftp/bin/ls.
Also you must use hard links rather than softlinks if you want
to access a file that is outside the ftp directory tree.
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