wu-ftpd: "inetd installed" - detection bug

[Andreas Krüger]

Binary package hint: wu-ftpd

Hello,

I have Ubuntu 8.10 newly installed on this computer and needed a simple FTP server today.

I installed wu-ftpd, but the beast would not start up.

My analysis: /etc/init.d/wu-ftpd tries to find out whether an instance of inetd is installed.

But there is a simple bug in that shell code, that causes wu-ftpd to not start up by itself
even if inetd is not installed (it isn't on this machine).

The essence of that bug: The shell command [ -n ] is a success, while [ -n "" ] is not.

Patch included.

With best regards, and thank you for providing fine software,

Andreas Krüger

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: wu-ftpd 2.6.2-30ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/lib/eclipse/eclipse:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: wu-ftpd
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Alessio Treglia (quadrispro)]

Is this still reproducible in Karmic?

[Alessio Treglia (quadrispro)]

On Karmic:

I: [karmic_amd64-439af960-c7d6-42a2-87fd-b8d72757d369 chroot] (alessio->root) Running login shell: '/bin/bash'
(karmic_amd64)root@quadromatic:/home/alessio# apt-get install wu-ftpd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  update-inetd
Suggested packages:
  logrotate
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  update-inetd wu-ftpd
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 312kB of archives.
After this operation, 979kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://127.0.0.1 karmic/main update-inetd 4.31 [16.9kB]
Get:2 http://127.0.0.1 karmic/universe wu-ftpd 2.6.2-30ubuntu1 [296kB]
Fetched 312kB in 0s (477kB/s)
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Selecting previously deselected package update-inetd.
(Reading database ... 11198 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking update-inetd (from .../update-inetd_4.31_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package wu-ftpd.
Unpacking wu-ftpd (from .../wu-ftpd_2.6.2-30ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up update-inetd (4.31) ...

Setting up wu-ftpd (2.6.2-30ubuntu1) ...
 * Starting FTP server wu-ftpd [ OK ]

(karmic_amd64)root@quadromatic:/home/alessio# /etc/init.d/wu-ftpd stop
 * Stopping FTP server wu-ftpd
                                                                         [ OK ]

[Andreas Krüger (andreas-krueger)]

Bug is still active. I installed wu-ftpd 2.6.2-31ubuntu1 on a Ubuntu 9.10 desktop system today - same result as above.

My old patch as posted above on 2009-03-11 still repairs the situation.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for wu-ftpd (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]