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Hi,
I suucesfully installed NetFtp Server and started the server on a Solaris machine. From a remote system I ftpd in to the Solaris box and able to login as anonymous user
ftp> status
Connected to sever_name.
Type: ascii; Verbose: On ; Bell: Off ; Prompting: On ; Globbing: On
Debugging: Off ; Hash mark printing: Off .

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but when I give a command like 'ls' it fails, it says 
ftp> ls
Connection closed by remote host.

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this is my configeration file 
 
debug:                 1

port:                 8026
daemon mode:             1
run in background:         1

# maintainer email:         bob@example.com

error log:            /etc/ftpd.errors

allow anonymous:         1


pam authentication:        1

client logging:         /etc/ftpd.log


chdir message file:        .message

retrieve rule:             $pathname ne "/etc/passwd" && $filename ne 
+".htaccess"

home directory:            /

store rule:             !$user_is_anonymous || $dirname =~ m|^/incomin
+g/|

allow site exec command:     1

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This is the error i got in my ftpd.error file 
Resource limit RLIMIT_NPROC cannot be set. This may be because the BSD
+::Resource module is not available on your system, or it may be becau
+se your operating system does not support RLIMIT_NPROC. Without resou
+rce limits, the FTP server may be open to denial of service (DoS) att
+acks. The real error was:  at /Perl_Modules/new/lib/site_perl/Net/FTP
+Server.pm line 3270.
no ftp user in password file...... at /Perl_Modules/new/lib/site_perl/
+Net/FTPServer/Full/Server.pm line 285, <STDIN> line 2.
    Net::FTPServer::__ANON__('no ftp user in password file...... at /P
+erl_Modules/new/lib/site_perl/Net/FTPServer/Full/Server.pm line 285
    Net::FTPServer::Full::Server::user_login_hook('Net::FTPServer::Ful
+l::Server=HASH(0x2f914)', 'anonymous', 1) called at /Perl_Modules/new
+/lib/site_perl/Net/FTPServer.pm line 4662
    Net::FTPServer::_PASS_command('Net::FTPServer::Full::Server=HASH(0
+x2f914)', 'PASS', 'xxx.aa.com') called at /Perl_Modules/new/lib/site_
+perl/Net/FTPServer.pm line 3002
    Net::FTPServer::run('Net::FTPServer::Full::Server') called at ftpd
+.pl line 35

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Re: Net Ftp Server
by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 14, 2008 at 12:33 UTC

    I interpret the error message no ftp user in password file just as that. As soon as you read the documentation, you find that for anonymous access you need to have the appropriate system user on your system.

    As an aside, how do you think your node title describes your node? Does it fit well? How does this node differ from Net FTPServer? Your node titles are not really descriptive and I'd like you to put more effort into giving your nodes a descriptive title. How (Not) To Ask A Question has good hints on node titles too.

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      Sorry for that, Now I have changed the node title. I created a password file but now it fails here
      cannot chroot: /Perl_Modules/new/etc: Not owner at /Perl_Modules/new/l
+ib/site_perl/Net/FTPServer/Full/Server.pm line 277.

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      any ways Net ftp documentaion says that in http://search.cpan.org/~rwmj/Net-FTPServer-1.122/lib/Net/FTPServer.pm Anonymous logins are not affected by the password file option. Use the allow anonymous flag to control whether anonymous logins are permitted in the Full back-end..
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Re: Net Ftp Server
by moritz (Cardinal) on Mar 14, 2008 at 12:29 UTC
    Did you actually read the error message?

    It says it needs BSD::Resource, and it can't seem to find it.

    Did you install that module? Can you use it from other perl scripts? (try perl -MBSD::Resource -e1, if it prints an error you know that the module is not installed correctly).

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      I installed that module. I did perl -MBSD::Resource -e1 and there is no error.
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