What's your ~ftp structure look like? Here's what I have (and it works
for me):
$ cd ~ftp
$ ls -ld bin etc; ls -l bin etc
dr-xr-xr-x+ 2 SYSTEM SYSTEM 0 Mar 4 11:07 bin/
dr-xr-xr-x+ 2 SYSTEM SYSTEM 0 Mar 23 2002 etc/
bin:
total 956
-r-xr-xr-x 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 910152 Mar 4 11:07 cygwin1.dll*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 68608 Nov 27 10:43 ls.exe*
etc:
total 4
-r--r--r-- 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 440 Mar 21 2002 group
-r--r--r-- 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 83 Mar 21 2002 motd
-r--r--r-- 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 1165 Mar 23 2002 passwd
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