hallo, aix ftpd does strange things when supplied the notorious globbing pattern. although it does not crash, if you repeatedly run "ls ~{" it produces different results: $ ftp aix5.1-ml01 Connected to aix.machine.com. 220 aix5.1 FTP server (Version 4.1 Tue May 29 11:57:21 CDT 2001) ready. Name (aix5.1:alexm): 331 Password required for alexm. Password: 230 User alexm logged in. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> ls ~{ 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,0,32,2,128,211) 550 Unknown user name after ~ ftp> ls ~{ 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls. Passive mode refused. ftp> ls ~{ 226 Transfer complete. ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp> ls ~{ 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,0,32,2,128,212) 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,0,32,2,128,213) ftp> ls ~{ 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,0,32,2,128,214) 550 Unknown user name after ~ ftp> ls ~{ 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls. Passive mode refused. ftp> ls ~{ 226 Transfer complete. ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp> ls ~{ 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,0,32,2,128,215) 550 Unknown user name after ~ ftp> ls ~{ 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls. Passive mode refused. ftp> ls ~{ 226 Transfer complete. ftp: connect: Connection refused moreover, after running "ls ~{" once and getting any error message --> you can not run any commands and will get a connection refused message. after several attempts the functionality restores. Example: ftp> ls 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,0,32,2,128,250) 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls. total 46797 -rw------- 1 root system 15 Nov 07 14:38 .bash_history -rwxr----- 1 alexm staff 254 Nov 07 14:02 .profile -rw------- 1 alexm staff 1458 Nov 08 10:10 .sh_history drwx------ 2 alexm staff 512 Nov 07 14:04 .ssh drwxr-xr-x 28 alexm staff 3584 Nov 08 08:35 perl-5.6.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 alexm staff 23951360 Nov 07 14:04 stable.tar 226 Transfer complete. ftp> ls ~{ 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,0,32,2,128,251) 550 Unknown user name after ~ ftp> ls 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls. Passive mode refused. ftp> ls 226 Transfer complete. ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp> ls 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,0,32,2,128,252) 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls. total 46797 -rw------- 1 root system 15 Nov 07 14:38 .bash_history -rwxr----- 1 alexm staff 254 Nov 07 14:02 .profile -rw------- 1 alexm staff 1458 Nov 08 10:10 .sh_history drwx------ 2 alexm staff 512 Nov 07 14:04 .ssh drwxr-xr-x 28 alexm staff 3584 Nov 08 08:35 perl-5.6.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 alexm staff 23951360 Nov 07 14:04 stable.tar 226 Transfer complete. i did not have time to mess with it enough, just thought it was interesting (hi, troy :) ) -alexm __________________________________________ panic("Aiee, killing interrupt handler!");
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