Subject: TAR+GZIP

From: Thomas Leavitt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 18:37:07 PST

After we saw the CERT advisory on the security hole, we
changed the path for executables from /bin to /bin/ftp-exec.

For some reason, this "broke" the ability to tar and gzip or
tar and compress a file. When I do:

quote site exec /bin/ftp-exec/tar -c -z -f - dirname > dirname.tar.gz

the result is 

200-/bin/ftp-exec/tar: Cannot exec gzip: No such file or directory

however, doing a 

chroot /path/to/ftp/dir /bin/ftp-exec/tar -c -z -f - dirname > dirname.tar.gz

works fine.

Your help is appreciated!

Thomas
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