David M. Smith writes ("Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp"): > I've just enabled anonymous ftp to my Debian 1.1 Linux box according > to the instructions in the ftpd manpage. [...]
Oh dear. Of course the right thing to do is to install wu-ftpd. Could the ftpd manpage be changed so that it recommends that the user install the wu-ftpd package and only follows its instructions if they don't want this for some reason ? Ian.