Configuring Sendmail and VSFTPD

Ben Sewell ben_sewell_007 at hotmail.com
Sat May 8 03:37:33 UTC 2004


Grr the installation didnt work. I can't find a RPM for vsftpd. I kinda 
found some RPMs but they are found mandrake. Will they do?

Otherwise any idoit-proof instructions for installation of vsftpd or proftpd 
from scratch?

Ben

>From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
>Reply-To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: Configuring Sendmail and VSFTPD
>Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 10:41:36 -0600
>
>At 09:37 5/7/2004, you wrote:
>>Now back to FTP servers. I think I will install vsftpd based really on the 
>>speed. I will install it tomorow but I have it downloaded and unpacked.=)
>
>Hmm? Install is just "rpm -Uvh vsftpd-x.xx-x.i386.rpm".
>
>I strongly suggest that you stick to RPM and *NOT* install things from 
>source, which is what "downloaded and unpacked" sounds like. You will save 
>yourself tons of headaches, since all source-installed stuff is not tracked 
>and not updated automatically... it becomes "do-it-yourself" forever. If 
>you don't know of an excellent reason why you *should* compile and install 
>from source, then you shouldn't. Trust me.
>
>Which version of Red Hat Linux are you using? Have you set up "up2date" 
>yet? If so, try simply issuing the command "up2date vsftpd" as root and see 
>what happens. :-)
>
>
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If you fuck me off then standby,
Ben

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