Rick Graves wrote:
Tony,
Heya Roger, what's going on? :)
It is OK to choose a different package, if you want to put in the time and effort. It depends on your needs.
Agreed! I think the point here is that some of us are recommending, based on experience, what we feel is a better package than the one RedHat provides. Obviously a vi versus emacs type of choice, everyone likes what they like. But as a new linux/CentOS user, Fernando can benefit from our knowledge.
If there is some serious problem with vsftp, perhaps RedHat chose it based on dark motives. If this is so,
I don't get this paragraph at all, but...ok. Noone said there's something wrong with vsftpd, just that we like something else. For me personally, I love the Apache style config, the easy virtual users setup, and the chroot on by default stuff. Purely a choice on my part - I love choice, I'm a linux nerd.
Fernando has not used any of the tools for years, so he must put the effort into learning something new for him. For Fernando, there is no advantage to sticking with a legacy tool, as he must expend the effort no matter which tool he selects.
A valid point. But again, others of us think that the tool RedHat provides may not be the best one to learn. Your use of legacy here is incorrect, though -- ncftp is still shipped in Fedora Core 3, so I guess it has to be a license or support issue (ie like the mysql-server RPM, they didn't want to support it in RHES3).
-te