does linux have an FTP server capability with which i can share my files over the internet.(similar like FTP in IIS)
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 05:32:37AM +0530, vidyasagar venkatesh wrote:
does linux have an FTP server capability with which i can share my files over the internet.(similar like FTP in IIS)
Short answer: yes, look around under /etc/init.d/ and you should find at least one FTP Daemon installed and ready to run.
Long answer: Well, FTP is actually an age-old internet service, and has nothing to do with IIS. Does GNU/Linux have an FTP server capability? Of course it does! Its just one of a thousand different network services that one can host on a GNU/Linux box. You just need to install the right package and start the daemon! If you havn't noticed yet, the *NIX heritage that GNU/Linux builds on, ensures that all the great networking things are actually taken for granted ... you don't need to ask whether its there or not! Most distributions will have already installed an FTP daemon and a host of other services.
Here's a good resource to get you started.
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Sameer.
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
Short answer: yes, look around under /etc/init.d/ and you should find at least one FTP Daemon installed and ready to run.
That would be /etc/xinetd.d/ftp - ftp is the kind of daemon that's better run through the inet superserver. It would be disabled by default (since it is so insecure), but you can choose to enable it manually through that file.
Philip
In linux we have lot of ftp servers u can download them from linux cd. comman ones are vsftp and wuftp but vsftp is the secured one as author will give a price money of $500 if any one break it.
install by using this comman
1. rpm -Uvh <package-name>
2. move into /etc/xinetd.d directory
edit the file by vi editor
3. vi vsftp
4. make disable from yes to no
5. then restart the xinetd service
service xinetd restart
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