diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c8e78182..cb9f6b8e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@ linkchecker (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
   * adjust #! line in linkchecker script to correct python interpreter
     (Adam Feuer <adamf@pobox.com>)
   * proper proxy config handling
-  * distribution restructuring
-  * RPM packages
+  * distribution restructuring (now with RPM  and Zip packages)
+  * catch EOFError with ftp links (reported by Stan Mulder
+    <stan@intrepidsoftware.com>)
 
- -- Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@users.sourceforge.net>  Sun, 10 Sep 2000 18:23:19 +0200
+ -- Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@users.sourceforge.net>  Mon, 11 Sep 2000 00:53:53 +0200
 
 linkchecker (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/linkcheck/UrlData.py b/linkcheck/UrlData.py
index e665a559..be884da7 100644
--- a/linkcheck/UrlData.py
+++ b/linkcheck/UrlData.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ debug = linkcheck.Config.debug
 ExcList = [
    IOError,
    linkcheck.error,
+   EOFError, # from ftplib.py
 ]
 try:
     import socket
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a11090bd..518b4040 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ where the path arguments point to your SSL installation.""")
             self.scripts.append('linkchecker.bat')
         elif os.name=='posix':
             self.data_files.append(('/etc', ['linkcheckerrc']))
+            os.chmod("linkchecker", 0755)
 
 
 setup (name = "LinkChecker",