Re: Solaris FTPd question.

On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 16:34 -0700, kent wrote:

> Could it be that the reference above isn't to ~ftp/dev , but rather to 
> /dev/tcp ?

For security reasons, FTP daemons operate in a chroot'ed environment.
You need to create ~ftp/dev.  This is what my ftpd's homedir looks like.

% ls -l
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  6 ftp sys 4096 Jul 17  1996 ./
drwxr-xr-x 12 ftp sys 4096 Nov  1  2005 ../
lrwxrwxrwx  1 ftp sys    7 Jun  2  2007 bin -> usr/bin/
drwxr-xr-x  2 ftp sys 4096 Jul 17  1996 dev/
dr-xr-xr-x  2 ftp sys 4096 Jul 17  1996 etc/
drwxrwxrwx  4 ftp sys 4096 Sep 21  2002 pub/
drwxr-xr-x  5 ftp sys 4096 Jul 17  1996 usr/
% ls dev
./  ../  MAKEDEV*  tcp  ticotsord  udp  zero


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