This will only affect sites that use the ftp-exec directory (for "site exec" commands) with the new wu-ftpd-2.6.0 update packages, so it's probably a low priority... wu-ftpd-2.6.0-redhat.patch attempts to change the ftp-exec path from the default by modifying src/pathnames.h.in, but that file is only used if the new "configure" script is run. Since the wu-ftpd.spec file is still using the old "build" script, the patch has no effect. The change should be applied to src/pathnmaes.h.noac instead: --- wu-ftpd-2.6.0/src/pathnames.h.noac.patch0 Sun Oct 3 09:13:09 1999 +++ wu-ftpd-2.6.0/src/pathnames.h.noac Thu Oct 21 11:36:20 1999 @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ #define LASTLOG_DIR "/usr/adm" #endif -#define _PATH_EXECPATH "/bin/ftp-exec" +#define _PATH_EXECPATH "/usr/bin/ftp-exec" /* ** Virtual hosting requires to support many different types of customer. Of course, another simple workaround is to just make /bin/ftp-exec a symlink to /usr/bin/ftp-exec, and things will continue to work regardless of the which path ftpd uses.
Bug 6272 was for a version of Red Hat Linux that is no longer supported. Looking at the latest 2 releases (7.3/8.0) this problem does not seem to exist anymore.