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Date:      Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:21:52 +0200
From:      Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
To:        Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, yar@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: a simple patch to enable RFC2640 for /usr/libexec/ftpd
Message-ID:  <4624D800.1060607@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <1176799412.6766.19.camel@joe.realss.com>
References:  <1176725221.17708.16.camel@joe.realss.com>	<200704161910.17794.pieter@degoeje.nl> <4623BF5E.7000907@realss.com>	<200704171037.25514.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <1176799412.6766.19.camel@joe.realss.com>

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Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 10:37 +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> 
>>On Monday 16 April 2007 21:24, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
>>
>>>Pieter de Goeje 写道:
>>>
>>>>I think your patch looks good, however there have been some changes to ftpd 
>>>>since 6.1. Also, since lukemftp is imported from NetBSD, you might want to 
>>>>contact the original author so future imports won't discard this new feature.
>>>>  
>>>
>>>Original author of lukemftp? I never used that software before, but 
>>>would be glad to try as next option and see if I can patch that too.
>>
>>lukemftp is the former name of tnftp, which is known in
>>FreeBSD as the native ftp client and server. So it would
>>be better to send your pathes directly to them, Luke Mewburn
>>or the NetBSD project.
>>
>>http://freshmeat.net/projects/tnftp/
>>
> 
> Okay, now I got it, so /usr/libexec/ftpd is
> simply /usr/libexec/lukemftpd's copy or reconfigured version.

This is not correct.  We have lukemftpd in the src/contrib directory
but it is not activated by default.  The standard ftpd found in usr/libexec
is the traditional FreeBSD ftpd.  It is not imported from somewhere else.

> I'll reach tnftp team. I read from their webpage that they have
> implemented RFC 2389 themselves.

Yar Tikhiy is our ftpd maintainer.  I've put him into the cc line of this
email.  He may not be subscribed to this mailing list.

-- 
Andre




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