No such file or directory (what?)

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No such file or directory (what?)

takusuman opened this issue 3 years ago · 12 comments

I've just set it up here in my home server, i've also set the ftp directory and then ran it as root.
When i've tried to access it via tnftp and run ls, it returned "No such file or directory.".

What is happening here? Could someone tell me if it's just my fault and how could i fix it?

My server log:

My client:

Sorry for any bad english.

Answer 1 · 2021-05-16T06:42:35.000Z

How did you start it, as an inetd service, or stand-alone daemon, what arguments to uftpd did you use?

Answer 2 · 2021-05-16T13:10:38.000Z

How did you start it, as an inetd service, or stand-alone daemon, what arguments to uftpd did you use?

I've started it as a stand-alone daemon, and used these args:
uftpd -n -l debug

Answer 3 · 2021-05-16T14:10:05.000Z

Then tries to run from the ftp user's $HOME directory. I'm guessing you don't have an ftp user in your system?

Answer 4 · 2021-05-16T15:05:49.000Z

Then tries to run from the ftp user's $HOME directory. I'm guessing you don't have an ftp user in your system?

Yes, i have.

Answer 5 · 2021-05-16T15:09:49.000Z

It also says that it's serving files from my FTP directory, so i don't think that's this is the problem.

Answer 6 · 2021-05-16T15:13:23.000Z

Weird, works for me over here. Same setup, but a system user at lower UID and /srv/ftp as home directory. I'm using ncftp to test...

Edit: just tested with tnftp, and it works as well. Sorry, don't know what could be the problem here.

Answer 7 · 2021-05-16T15:37:06.000Z

Weird, works for me over here. Same setup, but a system user at lower UID and /srv/ftp as home directory. I'm using ncftp to test...

Edit: just tested with tnftp, and it works as well. Sorry, don't know what could be the problem here.

I will try to recompile it.

Edit: Yeah, still getting the same error.

Answer 8 · 2021-05-16T17:05:49.000Z

Really running out of ideas, have you checked that uftpd has read (and execute for dirs) permissions for the /usr/str0/ftp directory?

Answer 9 · 2021-05-16T17:07:39.000Z

I think yes, because it's running as root; so, in theory, it has to have them.

Answer 10 · 2021-05-16T21:49:34.000Z

Actually, when running as root and an ftp user exists, uftpd drops privilieges to that user.

Answer 11 · 2021-05-16T22:01:17.000Z

Oh...
O.k., i will test here.

Edit: Now it works.
Sorry for being an idiot, but at least may this thread solves another person's problem.

Answer 12 · 2021-05-16T22:38:00.000Z

No problem, it's not obvious how it works. Great to hear you got it working at least, take care! :)