docs/99912: Wrong documentation of /etc/ftpchroot

[Ceri Davies]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 04:49:56PM +0200, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> Hello Ceri,
> 
> Friday, August 25, 2006, 4:28:33 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > On 22/8/06 19:30, "Daniel Gerzo" <danger at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> >> The following reply was made to PR docs/99912; it has been noted by GNATS.
> >> 
> >> From: Daniel Gerzo <danger at FreeBSD.org>
> >> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, jakub.siroky at atlas.cz
> >> Cc:  
> >> Subject: Re: docs/99912: Wrong documentation of /etc/ftpchroot
> >> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:23:26 +0200
> >> 
> >>  Hello bug-followup,
> >>  
> >>    This is actually not described in ftpchroot manual page, but in
> >>    ftpd.conf(5). I'm not sure if the described steps work though. The
> >>    main problem is that the ftpd.conf(5) belongs to lukemftpd, which is
> >>    contributed software from NetBSD and if the described process does
> >>    not work, there is not much we can do about it. We don't usually
> >>    modify contributed files. I would rather recommend you to address
> >>    this to NetBSD team, if this is the case.
> 
> > No, because the problem is that the documentation is correct on NetBSD.  The
> > problem arises because we have two different ftpd implementations that
> > conflict badly.
> 
> > Personally I think that we should remove lukemftpd from the tree, or at
> > least strongly urge the maintainer to correct these conflicts on import.
> > Unfortunately there's not a good history of any response to this matter.
> 
> Well, we should beat some src committer to clean this crap out. It's
> really confusing and I've been looking around what is going on there
> for a few minutes, until I realized that we just have 2 different ftp
> daemons in base and no one know what belongs to what.

Yep, yep and yep :)

Ceri
-- 
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                                                  -- Moliere
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