Re: SunOS 4.1.4 ftp serious bug

[frank () sun01 ccii unipi it (Francesco Messineo)]

On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Homer W. Smith wrote:

>     This may be old hat, but it has bitten me again recently and
> I am surprised this bug is allowed to live.
>
>     Running SunOS 4.1.4
>
>     ftp from SunOS machine A to any other machine B.
>
>     cd remote directory
>
>     lcd to any random directory NOT the directory that contains
> the file you wish to upload.
>
>     put /absolute/path/to/file
>
>     This will *ERASE* the file on machine A!

This didn't work on a SunOS 4.1.4 (sun sparc 1).
The file is still there after some different ftp to other machines as you
decribed.

>     Homer
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Regards.

-fm