On Tuesday 24 May 2011 05:24:07 listmail wrote: > Hi All, > > Please feel free to correct any misconceptions in my premises as I get to > my question. I have about 6 ftp services running on a CentOS system that > is going down for service, and I want to move the ftp services to a VM on > another network. These are all running on Proftpd, with fairly complicated > directory/permissions/rate control layouts, as proftpd nicely supports. > > First, it appears that RH and CentOS have dropped proftpd since I last > looked and are now only shipping vsftpd in the repositories. > > Second, I looked at the vsftpd site, and noticed a complete absence of > documentation (other than a basic bare-bones manpage), so I have no idea if > vsftpd will support anything that I'm doing with proftpd, or any > information about how to configure anything. > > Obviously I could just install the latest version of proftpd from source on > the new host and get on with my life, but is there any reason to bite the > bullet and try to convert my ftp sites to a new, basically undocumented ftp > server? > > Any input appreciated, especially on conversions of complicated ftp sites > from proftpd to vsftpd. > > Thanks, > --Bill Bill, the proftpd is currently in the EPEL repository. Information on additional CentOS repos is available at http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories Pay attention to the reference on yum-priorities. And vsftpd doesn't have even half of the features that proftpd offers. So it will be a fairly complicated migration if you go that way. Marian
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