[CentOS] Choice of FTP server

Wed May 31 15:46:36 UTC 2006
Alex Palenschat <alex at nssmgmt.com>


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> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Rodrigo Barbosa
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 10:54 AM
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> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 10:23:34AM -0500, Alex Palenschat wrote:
> > I have taken over a number of RH/FC/CentOS servers recently. I am 
> > trying to upgrade all of them to CentOS 4.3 and configure 
> them to only 
> > use software that can be managed via yum/apt repositories. 
> One of the 
> > choices made by my predecessor was the pure-ftpd server 
> over vsftpd. I 
> > cannot find a repo to get this rpm from and am wondering if 
> anyone on 
> > the list has any practical experience with both and can 
> give me some 
> > insight as to whether it would be better to run vsftpd 
> (more likely to 
> > be updated after a security update via yum) versus 
> pure-ftpd (very few 
> > updates needed in it's history).
> > 
> 
> pure-ftpd should be avaliable on Karan-extra repository.
> See centos.karan.org
> 
> - -- 
> Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>

It sure is. Thanks. Have to start checking that one as well. Now if I
can just find one that has the 3.x version of Shorewall...

Alex Palenschat