ftp login problem using wu-ftpd

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Stevan Ignjatovic,

In message <1277820991.4257.18.camel at stevan> you wrote:
> 
> I ported Linux-2.6.30-rc8 on my custom mpc885 board. The filesystem I am
> using is jffs2 which I created from
> eldk-4.2/ppc_8xx/images/ramdisk_image.gz. Linux boots fine and I can
> telnet to the board but I cannot ftp:
...
> Here ftp connection hangs. Do I have to create another user (beside
> root) in order to make ftp connection? Earlier, when I was using 2.4
> linux I didn't have problems with ftp connection as root.

check your kernel configuration. You might be missing options like
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS or CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS or similar.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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