proftpd problem

hnad · 10-06-2004, 10:21 PM

Hi

I got proftpd running on slackware 10. It's running as standalone and is #commented# in inetd.conf.

Problem is it takes 10 seconds to connect.

FTP OK - 10.005 second response time on port 21

It shouldn't take this long to respond?

I don't have a proper startup script for it. Just running "proftpd start" from the command line.

Any ideas? Any good examples anywhere of a proftpd startup script for a standalone server under slackware?

Thanks

Cedrik · 10-07-2004, 03:57 AM

maybe a prob with config ? Check output for :

/usr/sbin/proftpd --configtest

hnad · 10-07-2004, 04:08 AM

Yeh i tried that. Couldnt find any problems with the config. It was pretty standard.

Anyway I just discovered the joys of pure-ftpd. I don't think I'll bother with proftpd anymore.

FTP OK - 0.056 second response time on port 21

trickykid · 10-07-2004, 07:21 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by hnad
Yeh i tried that. Couldnt find any problems with the config. It was pretty standard.

Anyway I just discovered the joys of pure-ftpd. I don't think I'll bother with proftpd anymore.

FTP OK - 0.056 second response time on port 21

I was going to suggest vsftpd. Patrick actually dropped proftpd after they sat on bugs and security vulnerabilities for way too long. vsftpd is small, simple, fast and secure. And its now the standard ftp package Patrick will recommend and use for Slackware.

hnad · 10-07-2004, 07:09 PM

Interesting. I've used vsftpd with redhat servers, default ftp server with RH. It is very good. I was just after something with more features while still being very secure. Don't know what I was thinking about trying to use proftpd. Security wise its a joke.

pure-ftpd seems to be extemely secure, un-cracked in the world wide crackattack competition?? fast, and has some nice features that vsftpd doesn't have.

Going to give it a run as our main ftp server.

carboncopy · 10-08-2004, 01:49 AM

If anyone like to run a private ftp server. I suggest just disable ftp server (as it is disabled by default in Slackware 10.0) and use sftp client (ssh).