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 -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com