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Date:      Thu, 4 Jul 1996 15:12:51 -0700 (MST)
From:      Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD questions)
Subject:   wu-ftpd compress...
Message-ID:  <199607042212.PAA29080@seagull.rtd.com>

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Greetings!

> From: Werner Griessl <croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de>
> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 16:34:50 +0000 ()
> Subject: Re: setting up wu-ftpd
> 
> > > On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, Werner Griessl wrote:
> > > 
> > > >Found the solution now !
> > > 
> > > It didn't for me!. I made the change to ftpaccess, and get this message
> > > 
> > > 0:/
> > > ncftp>cd /pub/netscape/gold/      
> > > You have new mail.
> > > 0:/pub/netscape/gold
> > > (Mail) ncftp>ls -al
> > > total 16
> > > drwxr-xr-x  4 root  operator  512 Jul  3 23:45 ./
> > > drwxr-xr-x  5 root  operator  512 Jul  3 23:45 ../
> > > drwxr-xr-x  2 root  operator  512 Jul  3 23:39 2/
> > > drwxr-xr-x  2 root  operator  512 Jul  3 23:38 3/
> > > 0:/pub/netscape/gold
> > > ncftp>get 2.tar.gz
> > > Local error: conversion program not found. Cannot TAR+GZIP file.
> > > 0:/pub/netscape/gold
> > > ncftp>quit
> > > You have mail in /var/mail/khetan
> > > [chain] ~$ 
> > > 
> > > My ftpaccess file contains
> > > 
> > > compress        yes             all local remote
> > > tar             yes             all local remote
> > > zip             yes             all local remote
> > > 
> > > and my ftpconversions file is
> > > 
> > >  :.Z : :  :/usr/ftp/bin/gzip -d -c %s:T_REG|T_ASCII:O_UNCOMPRESS:UNCOMPRESS
> > >  :   : :.Z:/usr/ftp/bin/compress -c %s:T_REG:O_COMPRESS:COMPRESS
> > >  :.gz: :  :/usr/ftp/bin/gzip -cd %s:T_REG|T_ASCII:O_UNCOMPRESS:GUNZIP
> > >  :   : :.gz:/usr/ftp/bin/gzip -9 -c %s:T_REG:O_COMPRESS:GZIP
> > >  :   : :.zip:/usr/ftp/bin/zip -9 -r %s:T_REG:O_COMPRESS:ZIP
> > >  :   : :.tar:/usr/ftp/bin/tar -c -f - %s:T_REG|T_DIR:O_TAR:TAR
> > >  :   : :.tar.Z:/usr/ftp/bin/tar -c -Z -f - %s:T_REG|T_DIR:O_COMPRESS|O_TAR:TAR+COMPRESS
> > >  :   : :.tar.gz:/usr/ftp/bin/tar -c -z -f - %s:T_REG|T_DIR:O_COMPRESS|O_TAR:TAR+GZIP
> > I believe that's wrong (unless you have a ~ftp/usr/ftp/bin/gzip). The paths
> > are relative to the chroot'ed ftp home dir. You need a 
> > ~ftp/bin/{gzip,tar,compress}.
> > 
> >  :.Z:  :  :/bin/gzip -d -c %s:T_REG|T_ASCII:O_UNCOMPRESS:UNCOMPRESS
> >  :   : :.Z:/bin/compress -c %s:T_REG:O_COMPRESS:COMPRESS
> >  :.gz: :  :/bin/gzip -cd %s:T_REG|T_ASCII:O_UNCOMPRESS:GUNZIP
> >  :   : :.gz:/bin/gzip -9 -c %s:T_REG:O_COMPRESS:GZIP
> >  :   : :.tar:/bin/tar -c -f - %s:T_REG|T_DIR:O_TAR:TAR
> >  :   : :.tar.Z:/bin/tar -c -Z -f - %s:T_REG|T_DIR:O_COMPRESS|O_TAR:TAR+COMPRESS
> >  :   : :.tar.gz:/bin/tar -c -z -f - %s:T_REG|T_DIR:O_COMPRESS|O_TAR:TAR+GZIP
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Khetan Gajjar.
> > > 
> > > ---
> > > http://www.chain.iafrica.com/~khetan/
> > > UUNet-Internet Africa 
> > > Operations - 0800-030-002
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> > 
> 
> I use /usr/bin/ in ftpconversions and a link from ftp's HOME/usr/bin -> HOME/bin.
> This will work for both ftp and "normal" users !
> I use also statically linked binaries in ftp's HOME to avoid problems with
> the shared libraries path.
> 
> Works for me except .Z (compress). Don't no why .
> 
> Werner

I think you'll find compress is NOT built static (at least it wasn't
in 2.1R).  You can use gzip (I believe) to give you compress's
behaviour, though...

--don



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