[SWLUG] FTP and new server help!

[Neil Jones]

On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 19:57, Dave Cridland wrote:
> On Sun Feb  5 20:12:53 2006, Neil Jones wrote:
> > This leads me to think that FTP is not enabled on the box.
> > I can SSH into it.
> > 
> > I can't find any records of my attempts on the servers logs either, 
> > but
> > I am not entirely sure how to fix it?
> > 
> > Any ideas what is wrong?
> 
> I'd agree that FTP is not enabled, and probably not installed, on the 
> box, although there's a small chance it's being firewalled out with 
> an explicit refusal.
> 
> If it's just for you, consider using SCP or SFTP, both should work 
> "right now", and have surprisingly good platform coverage these days. 
> (In fact, almost as good as FTP, so worth considering even if it's 
> not just for you.)
> 
> Otherwise, you'll need to install an FTP server. There are quite a 
> few, in particular vsftpd and ProFTPd are quite popular.
> 
> Dave.

Thanks Dave,

It turns out after doing a ps aux ( why didn't I think of that earlier)
that there was no ftp client running.

VSFTP is present and I shall see how well it runs. LArge FTP inprogress
as I type.

Neil Jones
Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk