David M. Smith writes ("Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp"): > >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mark> (There's something to be said for having the debian ftpd package > Mark> either handle this or include a script to do so... even if it > Mark> means "dpkg --root ~ftp -i base*.deb" :-) > > Definitely agree with this. It would be nice to have an anon-ftp > package which would set up ~ftp as appropriate (but not as extremely > as Mark suggests!)
The package exists, and is called `wu-ftpd'. Ian.