ProFTPD 1.2.9rc2: please fix the readme file

Jason Tishler jason@tishler.net
Wed Oct 22 13:46:00 GMT 2003


Bruno,

Would you like to become the Cygwin ProFTPD maintainer?  Just like me
know... :,)

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:18:54PM +0200, Grossniklaus Bruno wrote:
> Problems
> ========
> proftpd-1.2.9rc2p-1/README.cygwin and
> proftpd-1.2.9rc2p-1/CYGWIN-PATCHES/README
> are not in sync.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure what is the best way to keep them in sync.

> proftpd-1.2.9rc2p-1/README.cygwin
> ---------------------------------
> [snip]
> cygrunsrv --install proftpd \
>           --path /usr/local/sbin/proftpd.exe \
                   ^^^^^^^^^^
>           --args "--nodaemon" \
>           --type manual \
>           --disp "Cygwin proftpd" \
>           --desc "ProFTPD FTP daemon"

OK, then submit a patch to:

    http://bugs.proftpd.org/

that changes "/usr/local" to "$prefix" (i.e., the configure --prefix
value).

> Remarks
> -------
> * It would be a good idea to keep this readmes in sync.

Agreed, but see above.

> * is it --args --nodaemon  or --args "--nodaemon"

Yes.

> * please add that we need to replace the gid 513 (none) to the correct
>   gid in /etc/passwd
> * please add the touch /var/log/wtmp && chmod 666 /var/log/wtmp 
>   (or provide a setup script)

The above have been added to my README in the Issues section:

    http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/proftpd/proftpd-1.2.9rc3.README

> Remark
> ------
> * we need make (3.80) as well (not part of gcc) ...

Very picky...

Jason

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