Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 7283
Problem with wu-ftpd 2.6-1 update...
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
I was patching my anon ftp server from 2.5.0-9 to 2.6-1. After installing the 2.6-1 RPM (with -Uvh flags) I could not get a direstory listing in /home/ftp by using plain ls. If I did ls -l they would show up. I tried this on all the sub dirs and ls worked fine there. Then I uninstalled wu-ftpd 2.6-1, reinstalled it the results were the same. Then I uninstalled anonftp and wu-ftpd 2.6-1, reinstalled them and the results were the same. Then I uninstalled anonftp and wu-ftpd 2.6-1 again, and this time put back the original anonftp(2.8-1) and the original wu-ftpd(2.5.0-9) from the RedHat 6.1 CD. After this it is working the same way it always has. Lawrence Knachel lknachel@jjma.com "The problem with slashdot is that it should be first patch, not first post." -Alan Cox
It's not a bug, it's a feature. The NLST code in wu-ftpd has been modified to do what the RFCs want it to do, causing mget to work correctly (i.e. don't list directories).