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[Nathan F]

I have hada lot of problems in Puppy2 using betaftpd, and from scanning the forums it seems that others have been having problems with it as well. I wanted to have something that was pretty bulletproof and easy, so I compiled pure-ftpd. This was compiled from within OneBone, no special options.

To run type 'pure-ftpd &'
for anonymous ftp just create a system user named 'ftp'

[MU]

ftp://192.168.1.100/pub/unleashed_packages/pure-ftpd-1.0.21.tar.gz

That is the adress of your local server.
192.168 is the local network, and can not be externally accessed.

Pro-ftp is nice, tried it in Linux-Mandriva long time ago.

Mark

[Nathan F]

Apologies, I'll fix the link.

Nathan

[r__hughes]

Hi Nathan - thanks for working on the pure-ftpd server.
I downloaded the pure-ftpd-1.0.21.tar.gz into pup201SM which is bootloaded on my W98 system with pup4dos.

I installed it as an alien pupget package without problems - but when I try to run with 'pure-ftpd &' I get

~# pure-ftpd &
[1] 4870
~#

There is no sign of any 'pure-ftpd' process running

Note my root shell is bash hence the prompt - when I tried to adduser ftp -h /root/ftp it told me user already existed, presumably from betaftpd server which also created /root/ftp folder.

[Nathan F]

[r__hughes]

It's looking good Nathan, I've got it running on a pup201sm and I'm able to download folders full of files (with no errors ) to a pup109ce using Gftp client.

Uploads of files from the 109pupclient is also 100% error free - but at present I can't upload folders or delete anything from the server - I'm going to have to check the docs.

So far I've xferred binaries, MP3s, jpgs, doc, txt files of up to 4Mb size in my first few tests - it's looking very good

[Nathan F]

I used man2html to get the docs in shape quick, so have a look in /usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd and it may have an answer for that. Right now I haven't used it enough to know. It would be nice to get that figured out, so if you discover the secret please share.

I have had a lot of other projects going the last few days and only gave this a cursory job at packaging at best. Glad it's working for you for the most part. One other thing, will it let you write over files on the server when doing an upload?

Nathan

[r__hughes]

'pure-ftpd -M &' allows me to upload folders
and create folders on the server (as anonymous user)

MKD testfolder
257 "testfolder" : The directory was successfully created

but I'm not allowed to overwrite, rename or delete :-

PASV
227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,0,101,178,91)
STOR /VBOX stuff/bootlog200/bootlog_2.txt
553 Anonymous users may not overwrite existing files

RNFR pci.txt
550 Anonymous users are not allowed to move/rename files

DELE /VBOX stuff/pci.txt
550 Anonymous users can not delete files

still checking the docs ------------

[r__hughes]

addendum - - - - -

I've been using pure-ftpd server with pup201sm now on each of the 4 computers in my LAN for the best part of a week, starting it by

[Nathan F]

It might be better to execute this from rc.local, I think when X exits anything run from .xinitrc will be killed as well. Not sure, I could be wrong.

I'll write a control panel pretty soon, so it's good to know where the pid file is at. Saves me having to search for it. Anyway, that makes stopping the server easier, just do

[r__hughes]

Nathan said

[Fallen]

ok i got it installed so whats next? how do i start the ftp server for anyone to access, and how do i add a administrative user so i can upload or delete files from anywhere? please make it simple to understand i am new to linux, but i have a little understanding.

[phpbbviet]

hi!

how i can change port to 2222 or config ?

[jeffrey]

I can't see a valid download URL for pure-ftp above.
Nathan, did you "fix it"?
Would someone please re-post it for me?
Thanks,
Jeffrey.

[MU]

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