Re: [cobalt-users] New Proftpd [ important fixes ]

[Jeff Bilicki <jeffb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can use rpm -U <rpm_name> as root to install the package.  Currently
these rpms are in testing and should be released in pkg in a couple of
weeks.  

Jeff-


Rob Rivas wrote:
> 
> now how do you go about installing this onto a raq2? i dont know about rpms,
> i guess i gatta learn someday!
> 
> Rob
> 
> >From: Jeff Bilicki <jeffb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [cobalt-users] New Proftpd [ important fixes ]
> >Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 19:53:53 -0800
> >
> >A new version of Proftpd is available, and contains for following
> >fixes.
> >
> >Fixes:
> >- Update to pre9
> >
> >- RaQ 1/2/3 Qube 2 If you have a large group of site admins (around
> >260), some (RaQ 3) or all site admins (RaQ 1/2) get locked into there
> >home directory.  The fix should work up to 4096 site admins.
> >
> >- RaQ3 only, Proftpd generates a high system load and delay when any
> >user tries to log in using ftp.  This will happen if you have more than
> >260 users in any one group.
> >
> >- RaQ3 only, Previous pre9 versions posted to expiriemental, the work
> >around to the above problem caused the last user in the group not to be
> >read correctly, denying them site admin ftp access.
> >
> >- RaQ 3 only, a sendfile problem on transfers of a lot of small files,
> >basically while doing a mget * (prompt off) in ftp it will pause at:
> >
> >150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for xxxxxx (xxxx bytes).
> >
> >The pause is about 1-2 seconds per file, mput * does not display the
> >same behavior.
> >
> >Location:
> >RaQ 3 -
> >ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/experimental/security/proftpd/proftpd-1.2.0pre9-C6.i386.rpm
> >
> >RaQ 2
> >-ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/experimental/security/proftpd/proftpd-1.2.0pre9-C6raq2.mips.rpm
> >
> >RaQ 1 - Qube 2 -
> >ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/experimental/security/proftpd/proftpd-1.2.0pre9-C6NOPAM.mips.rpm
> >
> >The srpms are located in the directory below:
> >ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/experimental/security/srpms/
> >
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