Re: [Net::FTPServer] Re: sending mail, forking

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:25:31AM -0400, Lenga, Yair [CIB-FI] wrote:
> I remember having similar problem with my own customized
> FTPServer. if your net::ftpserver is running in chroot, you have to
> make sure that you are loading all the required classes, and
> performing any rqeuired initialization (i.e., reading /etc/mime.types,
> ...) BEFORE the chroot.
>
> In my case, I found that the code is attempting to resolve service
> names from /etc/services - and it must be done done before the
> CHROOT. My solution was to resolve the service name into number as
> part of the server init, before forking setuid/chrooted childs.

Indeed.  You can see an example of this in the main server code.  Look
in FTPServer.pm and search down for the comment "Open /etc/protocols etc"

Another alternative is to avoid chroot altogether.

Rich.

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