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Shellcode keeps breaking in Ability FTP Server buffer overflow exploit

I am taking the Penetration Testing with Backtrack class from offensive-security.com and am working on a buffer overflow exploit for Ability Server. I can successfully over write EIP and jump to my ...
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Buffer Overflow - Program terminates after spawning a shell

I have been experimenting with buffer overflows on a FreeBSD system. As the first experiment I have tried to get the exploited program to start another process (/bin/hostname in this case). That all ...