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Bug 122730 - net-ftp/ftpd-0.17-r3 - ftpd does not behave according to man page
Summary: net-ftp/ftpd-0.17-r3 - ftpd does not behave according to man page
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Server (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
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Reported: 2006-02-13 13:34 UTC by Erik
Modified: 2007-01-22 00:27 UTC (History)
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Description Erik 2006-02-13 13:34:44 UTC
when I type "man ftpd" I can read:
     -p      Disable passive mode ftp connections.  This is useful if you are behind a firewall that refuses connections to arbitrary high numbered
             ports.  Many ftp clients try passive mode first and do not always react gracefully to a server that refuses connections to the port it
             asked the client to connect to.


when I type "zless /usr/share/man/cat8/ftpd.8.gz" I can read:
     -p      Use port (a service name or number) instead of the default
             ftp/tcp.

but when I type "ftpd -p" I get:
ftpd: invalid option -- p
ftpd: unknown flag -p ignored

The expected behaviour is that an option that is listed in the man page should not be invalid. It would also be nice to not have several man pages that say different things for the command. "equery b /usr/bin/ftpd /usr/share/man/cat8/ftpd.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/ftpd.8.gz" says:
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/ftpd,/usr/share/man/cat8/ftpd.8.gz,/usr/share/man/man8/ftpd.8.gz in *... ]
app-crypt/kth-krb-1.2.2-r2 (/usr/share/man/man8/ftpd.8.gz)
app-crypt/kth-krb-1.2.2-r2 (/usr/share/man/cat8/ftpd.8.gz)
net-ftp/ftpd-0.17-r3 (/usr/share/man/man8/ftpd.8.gz)
net-ftp/ftpd-0.17-r3 (/usr/bin/ftpd)
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-01-22 00:27:25 UTC
We didn't write the manpage, you need to complain upstream.