On 10/30/04 07:46, bruce wrote:
i have a few questions regarding the setup of an ftp server... i currently have an ftp server/app running. it was setup by someone esle, but i don't know how to find out which app it is. how can i find out what app is actually running the ftp server? i'd like to be able to make changes to the config file (where ever it is) so i can allow users to utilize the app!!!
Sometimes if you go to a command line and ftp localhost, the server will respond with what it is. Are you really sure that you have an ftp server running?
Red Hat shipped wu-ftpd as its default ftp server up through about Red Hat Linux 7.3 I think and then switched to vsftpd.
On my RHEL 3 system, this answers it clearly (it's line wrapped):
[ewilts@p6000 ewilts]$ ps -aef | grep ftp
root 4634 1 0 Sep18 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
The FTP server is not enabled by default and may not even be installed. You'll need to install it and then use chkconfig to turn it on and perhaps also need to start it depending on whether it's a daemon or xinetd service.
also, is there a 'prefered/best' ftp server that's used for the linux platform, or is it pretty much the default server shipped with the RH rpms. if there is a preference, which one...???
It depends on what you want to do. For simple configurations, vsftpd is okay. For complex configurations, you'll need something like ProFTPd or wu-ftpd. I've switched to using ProFTPd at work since vsftpd is way, way too insecure for us.
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