> * Ger Gorman (gormo at epona.physics.ucg.ie) [991022 13:43]:
> > Has anyone a suggestion for an ftpd. I'm just fed up
> hearing about more
> > buggs and patches for the damn thing!
>> The other obvious alternative is ProFTPD[0], but it too
> recently has had its
> share of security problems. It really depends on what you
> need to do, for a
> simple ftpd, you could do a lot worse that Troll Tech's
> ftpd[1], or the port
> of OpenBSD's ftpd[2].
Wu-ftpd doesn't seem to be updated/maintained that often. You'd be crazy to
put it on a production machine. Use wu-ftpd-vr which is a way more up to
date version of wu ftpd. (forget the URL, should be easy to find ->
freshmeat.)
-paul.
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