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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-was.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ftpd -U -- illegal option? Date: 31 Mar 1997 19:10:50 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5hp27q$b82@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5h97jp$i1b@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38171 mehldau@photogrammetrie.de (Gerhard Mehldau) wrote: > 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). That's clearly an error. After 2.1.5, somebody tried to backport the -R option to the 2.1 branch, and now it's even more broken... (`R' is mentioned twice, while `U' is still missing). Things are better in 2.2 and -current, the getopt list is now completely re-sorted. I'll fix it in the 2.1 branch, just in case. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)