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Paladin9

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« on: 4 March 2004, 05:04 »
I have been trying to make an ftp site out of my computer that runs slackware.  I tried to use proftpd but I cant figure it out. Whenever I ask about it, people jsut say "look at the docs at the proftpd website".  I did! Their documentation fucking blows.  It is some of the worst documentation I have ever seen.  Why is there not an easy to use ftp server software for linux? There is for windows, so why not linux?  Is the 11th commandment "Thou shall not make easy to use software for Linux"?  If there actually is an easy to use ftp server software out there that I do not know about, then PLEASE TELL ME!
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« Reply #1 on: 4 March 2004, 05:18 »
Need more information. What exactly is your problem? Do you have it installed?
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« Reply #2 on: 4 March 2004, 05:27 »
I just downloaded and installed it and it works fine for me.
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« Reply #3 on: 4 March 2004, 05:44 »
is there an ftp thing that comes with slackware already?
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« Reply #4 on: 4 March 2004, 05:46 »
Yes; proftpd.

Can you not get it installed or is there some problem running it?
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« Reply #5 on: 4 March 2004, 05:53 »
I was making changes to the conf file and then typing proftpd restart so the changes would take effect but they wouldnt(and yes I was saving the conf file each time).  The only way I could get the changes to take effect was to restart the whole computer.  After a while it stopped working all together.  Since I am only experimenting right now, I reinstalled slackware and now I just want to use what comes with the computer.  Are the ftp users the same as the linux users of the system?
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« Reply #6 on: 4 March 2004, 06:02 »
To make the config changes take effect you need to send a SIGHUP signal to the proftpd process, whose id is in /var/run/proftpd.pid. Just type
kill -SIGHUP `cat /var/run/proftpd.pid`
whenever you make any config changes.

Just double-check that file proftpd.pid is in that directory; I don't know if it will necessarily be the same one on your system.

Yes, ftp users are just regular users.

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« Reply #7 on: 4 March 2004, 21:05 »
I also tried "jailing" users just to their home directories.  After a reboot, this worked, but after another reboot the users were no longer jailed to their home directories.  I did not change that setting.  Can you explain this for me? What could I have done wrong?
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« Reply #8 on: 4 March 2004, 21:41 »
i found proftpd really good and very easy to use :S
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« Reply #9 on: 4 March 2004, 16:10 »
If you definitely didn't change that setting I have no idea why it would have changed.
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« Reply #10 on: 4 March 2004, 16:48 »
You might try NCftp.
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« Reply #11 on: 5 March 2004, 06:04 »
How do I just jail some users to their home directory and not others?
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« Reply #12 on: 6 March 2004, 05:27 »
Parhaps put a symlink in some of the users home directorys to outside the "jailing".
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