ftpd man page is little bit wrong
Evren Yurtesen
eyurtese at tekniikka.turkuamk.fi
Tue Aug 26 16:02:26 UTC 2003
Isnt there a web interfac for this? send-pr? I remember such thing was
existing but couldnt find?
Evren
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2003.08.26 06:24:49 +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> > I tried to use -u option of ftpd without any success for 2 hours!
> > Then I thought lets see whats going on inside the sources...
> > Voila, the -u option is overridden by login.conf
> >
> > /* May be overridden by login.conf */
> > (void) umask(defumask);
> >
> > Cant anybody put this into the man page of ftpd so that people will know
> > why their -u option doesnt work? :) I was really mad at ftpd
>
> I have actually had this on my TODO list for some time, but I haven't
> gotten around to looking at it yet. If you want to get this fixed
> faster, the best way is to send a PR (with send-pr) about the problem,
> and even better included a patch to update the manual page.
>
> --
> Simon L. Nielsen
> FreeBSD Documentation Team
>
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