Package: wu-ftpd Version: 2.4-13 As you can see, wu-ftpd on chiark violates the FTP protocol pretty badly when the pwd fails. This makes ncftp fall over.
Ian. -chiark:~> telnet localhost ftp Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 chiark FTP server (Version wu-2.4(4) Wed Sep 13 09:31:11 MET DST 1995) ready. user ftp 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. pass [EMAIL PROTECTED] 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. cwd /pub/debian/private/project 250-To get files uploaded to ftp.debian.org via chiark: 250- 250-1. Upload it to chiark:/pub/debian/private/project/Incoming. 250-2. Move the files using RENAME to chiark:.../project/queue. 250- 250-If you want to abort an upload you may delete files from Incoming or 250-queue. Do not simply upload to queue, as chiark may start to transfer 250-the file to ftp.debian.org before you're finished uploading it. 250- 250 CWD command successful. pwd 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: pwd
