Bug 13492 - ls seems to kill ftp connection
Summary: ls seems to kill ftp connection
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: wu-ftpd
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-07-05 11:39 UTC by Padraig Sweeney
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-07-05 11:39:06 UTC
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Description Padraig Sweeney 2000-07-05 11:39:05 UTC
I'm new to this system so please excuse any stupid statements.

I had a look to see if there was anything posted against wu-ftpd but
couldnt find anything.
I just installed wu-ftpd-2.6.0-14.6x.i386 and found that whenever I used
the "ls" command the ftp connection would hang for a while then terminate
(probably timing out). If I used the "dir" command on the same directory it
would return the expected results.
Since I need ftp access I reverted to version 2.6.0-3 and the problems were
solved.
My machine is running standard Redhat 6.2 except for the kernel which is
2.2.14-12.

- Padraig.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-07-10 20:18:20 UTC
The ls stuff hasn't changed at all. Check the ~ftp/bin/ls binary, possibly
reinstall the anonftp package.

Comment 2 Gilbert E. Detillieux 2000-07-17 22:15:00 UTC
The "ls stuff" has indeed changed, although perhaps inadvertently, when the
wu-ftpd update packages were issued.  If you look in the spec file, you'll find
the following...

%build
%configure --enable-quota --enable-pam --disable-rfc931 --enable-ratios \
        --enable-passwd --enable-ls

Note that the --enable-ls option is included.  This should not be there, as the
internal ls feature is still experimental, and apparently still contains memory
leaks which are potentially exploitable.


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