Re: tlug: ftp server site exec

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Scott> How do you set up 'site exec' on an FTP server?  for
>     Scott> example, I want to be able to:
> 
>     Scott> site exec locate perl
> 
>     Scott> from my FTP client...
> 
>     Scott> I put 'locate' in ~ftp/bin, but that doesn't seem to do the
>     Scott> trick.
> 
> Depends on which server you're using.  I think for wu-ftpd derivatives 
> you also need to enable `site exec' in the /etc/ftpaccess file or
> whatever it's called.

yeah, I'm using wu-ftpd. However there's no site-exec option in ftpaccess.

> 
> Also make sure the permissions are OK, the binary needs to be
> world-executable and probably may not be a symlink.
> 
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