Re: can't see directories

Here's one possibility...

If your FTP client is issuing NLST (as opposed to LIST) when you type 'ls',
then that would explain why directories are not listed.  NLST is only
supposed to return items which can be obtained by a RETR command, which
is basically files (and links to files); you can't retrieve directories per
se.

This is a FAQ :-
   http://www.wu-ftpd.org/wu-ftpd-faq.html#QA85

If this is your problem, and you absolutely must be able to use this FTP client
and type 'ls' instead of 'dir' or 'ls -al', then you can recompile with the
--enable-nlst-dirs option set (run configure, specifying this one along with
all the others which were used to compile the binary you are currently using,
then run make to recompile the daemon).

Note that implementing the non-RFC-compliant behaviour for NLST may break the
'mget' command.  You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Good luck !

Cheers, Bob

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:18:14PM -0600, Sean R wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Hope everyone had a good weekend. I have been working my brain in overdrive the last week trying to get this to work. I can not see dictories when using the 'ls' command. If i allow root to login i can see all the files and directorys if i use 'ls -la', but can only see one file if I us 'ls'. I am running Redhat 9. I did not use the redhat RPM since I wanted the latest version, and compling it was way more fun!
> 
> what I want is to allow anonymous access, but when I login with an anonymous user, the 'ls' command only shows my message.msg file, not the directorys. ls -la for the anonymous user shows:
> 200 PORT command successful.
> 150 Opening ASCII mode date connection for /bin/ls.
> 266 Transfer complete
>  
> other then that everything is running great, I am new to linux and did not have to much trouble compling and installing it.
> 
> Cheers
> Sean
> 
> *********Start of ftpaccess*****************
> class   nonclass        anonymous       *
> class   nonanon real,guest      *
> 
> 
> limit nonanon 0 wk0000-2359 /sean/ftp/.norealusers
> 
> 
> loginfails 3
> 
> chmod   no      anonymous
> delete  no      anonymous
> overwrite       no      anonymous
> rename  no      anonymous
> passwd-check    rfc822  enforce
> 
> upload /sean/ftp * no
> upload /sean/ftp /uploads yes ftp ftp nodirs
> 
> readme  README*    login
> readme  README*    cwd=*
> 
> message /welcome.msg            login
> message .message                cwd=*
> 
> compress        yes             all
> tar             yes             all
> 
> log commands real,anonymous,guest
> log transfers anonymous,real,guest inbound,outbound
> 
> shutdown /sean/ftp/.shutmsg
> #email <user>
> email user@hostname
> ************************************************************************
> 
> 
> ...NOTE : HTML SECTION HAS BEEN FILTERED OUT AT THIS LOCATION...
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Bob Luckin      [email protected]      "Coder, adapt; FTP Ada, redo C"