Bug#4380: crippled anon ftp

[Robert Komanec]

Package: wu-ftpd
Version: 2.4-23
Package: netstd
Version: 2.06-1

The man pages ftpd(8) and wu-ftpd(8) are both present on my system [Debian 1.1
kernel 2.0.0. #8] and they slightly differ from each other. However, both say,
that for anonymous ftp you need to "have ls(1) in ~ftp/bin with mode 111".
That's not enough. I had to download fileutils source and recompile ls to be
statically linked [using LDFLAGS=-static ./configure]. Without this step the
anon ftp does not return directory listing, neither it reports any error 
message.
It's a trap for beginners (like me).

Suggested steps:
 1. remove one of the man pages above and make it a link to the other, and
 2. include a note about the neccessity of further investigation regarding ls 
linking,
or
 2. include the statically linked ls in wu-ftpd package.

Anyway, what's the doubled *ftpd good for? The in.ftpd [or ftpd(8)] seems to
me the same as wu-ftpd(8). And the same maintainer...

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Bug#4474: dpkg versus cron and at

[Robert Komanec]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.2.11elf

I run into a problem with dpkg (or what):

I used to have 'cron' and 'at' on my system, but I suddenly realized,
that they are gone. I admit, I could have deleted them in 'dselect'
by mistake. However, it should be possible to install them again.
See bellow

This is the status in dselect
:--- Available Important packages in section admin ---
: -** Imp adminat   2.9b-1  2.9b-1  Delayed job execution
: -** Imp admincron 3.0pl1-32   3.0pl1-32   management of regular

This is the status on console (similar results for 'man at' or 'find at'...)
:#type at cron
:type: at: not found
:type: cron: not found

To recover, I tried to delete (remove) at and cron in dselect, now it looks like
: --- Imp adminat   2.9b-1  2.9b-1  Delayed job execution
: --- Imp admincron 3.0pl1-32   3.0pl1-32   management of regular

So now there should NOT be these packages. After I select them again
and try to install, I get from dselect
:Processing status file...
:Processing Package files...
: stable...
: non-free...
:Constructing list of files to get...
:Approximate total space required: 0k
:Do you want to select the files to get [n]:

and NO files are downloaded, installed etc etc.
The status changes to the original state then.

(I got no responses from linux.debian.users)

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