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    1. Contents of this FAQ
         1. Contents of this FAQ
         2. What is this document
              1. What is the intended audience for this document
         3. What is WU-FTPD itself ?
              1. What is the license status for WU-FTPD ?
              2. How do I subscribe/unsubscribe to the mailing lists ?
              3. Is this list archived anywhere ?
              4. What are related documents ?
              5. Are there any alternatives ?
         4. Where do I get WU-FTPD ?
              1. Where do I get the latest version ?
              2. What were the VR patches for WU-FTPD ?
              3. What is BeroFTPD ?
              4. PGP verification of the package fails!
         5. Compiling WU-FTPD
              1. cc complains about strunames, typenames, modenames, ..
                 being undeclared.
              2. I don't have yacc
              3. WU-FTPD doesn't 'see' that users are in multiple groups.
              4. I get "conflicting types for `realpath'"
              5. WU-FTPD doesn't use the shadow passwords on my Linux
                 machine.
              6. It doesn't compile at all on newer Linux installs. The
                 error is :
              7. The timezone in the xferlog is wrong
              8. The timezone in the ls output is wrong
              9. Digital Unix doesn't log commands after an anonymous
                 user logs in
             10. install fails with 'install: ..'
             11. Digital Unix (The Unix Formerly Known As OSF/1) and
                 Enhanced C2 security,
             12. It doesn't compile at all on Digital Unix, errors about
                 struct timeval
             13. What should I do to be able to use WU-FTPD in a HP-UX
                 10.01
             14. What should I do for HP-UX 10.10 to make it work
                 completely.
             15. Installation notes for HP-UX 10.20.
             16. I want to compile for IPv6
             17. PAM is not compiled in
         6. Special compilation options/fixes
              1. I need to authenticate real users via AFS
              2. I need to use S/KEY authorisation
              3. I want to block certain default addresses (IE30User@,
                 mozilla@)
         7. Installing WU-FTPD
              1. Command-line options for WU-FTPD
              2. Testing on a different port number than ftp:21
              3. Not all command line parameters seem to be used by
                 WU-FTPD
              4. How do I use the package file
                 WUFtpd250.wu-ftpd-2.6.2.SPARC.ULTRASparc.2.5.1.2.5.pkg.t
                 ar ?
              5. How do I enable WU-FTPD under Redhat 7 and higher ?
              6. I can't get out of my homedir with Redhat 8
         8. Are there year 2000 issues with WU-FTPD?
         9. The ftpaccess file
              1. Some files (banners, etc) don't get shown to anonymous
                 users.
              2. What is the exact format of the <times> parameter in the
                 "limit"
              3. What tools are there to check the configuration
              4. Why does %M produce (Max unlimited) on the login banner
        10. Programs (ls, gzip, tar) work for real users, not for
            anonymous users, giving errors like 425 Can't create data
            socket (0.0.0.0,20): Bad file number or simply no output.
              1. Solaris
              2. Building a statically linked ls for Solaris fails
              3. Linux
              4. Dec OSF
              5. SunOS4.1.x
              6. AIX
              7. IRIX (5.3, 6.2)
              8. SCO Unix
              9. BSD vs SVR4 ls
             10. It worked, until I upgraded the operating system.
        11. Running WU-FTPD
              1. ftpd allways says "221 Server shutting down. Goodbye."
              2. Anonymous ftp works fine, but real users are denied
                 access
              3. ftpconversions doesn't work
              4. On-the-fly compression works, on-the-fly tarring, but
                 not both.
              5. I want to use zip compression (InfoZip)
              6. I want a real user to be able to access the host only
                 via ftp, not via telnet
              7. Somebody uploaded a file with a weird name
              8. I want anonymous users to be able to upload files, but
                 in the most secure manner possible
              9. The upload clause doesn't work with directories as it
                 used to.
             10. The default umask used when a real user uploads a file
                 is wrong
             11. I heard something about 'SITE EXEC' having a security
                 hole
             12. How do I make reports more readable ?
             13. Incoming file transfers fail with SunOS and an NFS
                 mounted incoming
             14. Normal ftp clients work, Netscape ftp's fail. So,
                 passive mode doesn't work.
             15. I made a symbolic link within the anonymous tree or
                 guest tree and it doesn't work for the anonymous/guest
                 users.
             16. I want to redirect anonymous users to another machine
             17. ftpd stops accepting connections when a lot of
                 connections come in.
             18. Running WU-FTPD on a *large* site
             19. Only the first 8 characters of the anonymous username
                 are recieved by the server.
             20. WU-FTPD fails with '500 Illegal PORT Command' under AIX
                 4.3 or Solaris 8
             21. I want to host multiple ftp servers on the same machine
             22. I just upgraded and now nobody can log in. It worked
                 before.
             23. I get disconnected directly from the ftp server.
             24. Mirror breaks with WU-FTPD >= 2.6.0.
             25. Logins to the ftp server take a long time, after that
                 things run smooth
             26. ls doesn't show anything except files. It does not show
                 directories and links
             27. My client hangs at the end of a transfer
             28. Sometimes ftpd stops working and inetd logs 'ftp/tcp
                 server failing (looping), service terminated'
             29. I can't login, in the syslog is: get passwd; pwdb:
                 request not recognized
             30. Under Solaris, certain user information stays cached
                 even when changed
             31. Does WU-FTPD support resuming downloads/uploads
        12. Other things
              1. Where is the FTP protocol documented ?
              2. How can I make my ftp-archive accessible by Email
                 (ftpmail) ?
              3. How do I force all clients to switch to binary mode ?
              4. My embedded device has a builtin version of WU-FTPD
                 which is outdated according to your site, how do I
                 update it ?
        13. Credits/miscellanious
              1. How do I contact the WU-FTPD Development team
              2. I have a correction / new feature, how do I submit it
                 for the WU-FTPD Development team's consideration

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