Hi there,

I have installed new RHEL 6 server in my VM8. I just installed vsftpd-2.2.2-6.el6.i686 package to configure a yum server. But i am not able to FTP to any of the machines as i get "bash: ftp: command not found."

I have tried to reinstall and rebooted my machine. But still same problem.

Please find the output:

[root@localhost Packages]#rpm -q vsftpd
vsftpd-2.2.2-6.el6.i686

[root@localhost Packages]#whereis ftp
ftp:

root@localhost Packages]#whatis ftp
ftp: nothing appropriate

root@localhost Packages]#rpm -iv vsftpd-2.2.2-6.el6.i686.rpm
Package rpm -iv vsftpd-2.2.2-6.el6.i686.rpm is already installed.

root@localhost Packages]#service vsftpd status
vsftpd (pid 23645) is running. . .


Please help and let us know if you get an answer on "Why FTP is not available even though i have uninstalled and reinstalled couple of times"

vsftpd is a server, not a client. You need to install an ftp client, the server, as you can see, is already running.

Initially i was not able to get you. SO i just changed the directory where all my RPMS exists. Just did ls | grep -i ftp. Then i installed the client package to fix this. Thank you.