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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!gtoal From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] ftpd w/auto tar & compress available Message-ID: <ByFLzt.EKu@ibmpcug.co.uk> Date: 28 Nov 92 15:07:04 GMT References: <RICH.92Nov27231308@omicron.Rice.edu> Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK. Lines: 31 In article <RICH.92Nov27231308@omicron.Rice.edu> Rich@rice.edu writes: > >I merged Chris Myers' wuarchive ftpd enhancements into the 386bsd >ftpd. This is an enhancement of the existing ftpd code so that it >will handle access control lists, extensive logging and automaticly >tar and/or compress. He's done a fine job of it too folks. It's been well used since it was installed on rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk 24 hours ago. One thing rich - your distribution assumes src/usr.bin is online. When I put it up for ftp on rachel (/usr/local/src/ftpd-0.0) I made a local symlink in the source directory which can either be pointed at the real src/usr.bin or (as it is here) pointed at a tiny copy with the necessary header files from ftp. By the way, the packages on rachel are 99% the actual unpacked running directories from the real /usr/local/src which we've done a make on and generated the binaries we run here - in fact some of the binaries in /usr/local/bin are just symlinks to the ones in the source tree. So you should be able to fetch stuff from here and use it *immediately* (like ftpd and cops) without any configuration or even typing make. Many thanks to rich for porting the new ftpd. I recommend everyone use it as a replacement for the standard bsd one. It's saved us 40,000 blocks already from deleting copies of /usr/local/src packages we'd offered as .tar.Z files. Graham --