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From: mehldau@photogrammetrie.de (Gerhard Mehldau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: ftpd -U -- illegal option?
Date: 25 Mar 1997 19:04:25 GMT
Organization: Photogrammetrie GmbH
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Hello world,
in order to test compatibility with a particular ftp client,
I configured inetd to invoke ftp with the '-U' option, which
according to the man page is supposed to use the old data port
range (1024 to 4999).
When I tried to ftp to the machine, ftpd quit with an error
message along the lines of '-U: illegal option'. Looking
at the source code quickly showed the problem: there's a
compile-time option which allows either the '-S' or the '-U'
option, but not both. That was easy enough to fix, but I'm
still wondering whether there's a reasoning behind this
(and if so, what it is).
Anyone know?
Gerhard
BTW: And, of course, this should be documented in the man page...
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