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Re: other services ok, ftp not (was 1.5.11 - tcp problems)


Hello Brian,

Brian Dessent wrote:

Carlo Florendo wrote:



Thank you so much for your comments! However, updating the relevant
directories to have +x, and updating all the relevant files to have +rx
still didn't solve the issue. I've tried to track down the problem via
the source code of inetutils-1.3.2-28 and it seems the actual error
message is produced by the following code:



I can't tell from your message but since your prompts contain the username 'SYSTEM' I am assuming that you're testing this from a sysbash prompt in the context of something that's being run from a service, CGI, cronjob, etc... If that's the case then it sounds awfully like the problem of SYSTEMROOT being removed from the environment. Check that this variable is set for the process that is trying to run ftp. There's lots of recent threads about it in the archives if you need more background.



You really have a keen eye! However, the string "SYSTEM" doesn't have anything to do with the problem since I just
set the PS1 environment variable to "SYSTEM" since I don't want it printing my name.


My PS1 is set to: PS1="SYSTEM \w\n$ "

And of course, if I change PS1 to the cygwin default (as shown below), ftp still won't work.

SYSTEM /
$ export   PS1='\[\033]0;\w\007
> \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> $ '

Carlo@win1 /
$ ftp
ftp: ftp/tcp: unknown service

Thanks!

Best Regards,

Carlo

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Carlo Florendo
Astra Philippines Inc.
www.astra.ph


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