FTP on debain

Hi!

I am very new to linux and am trying to setup a ftp server on my linode account. I have a debain setup and i followed the various guides here.

i have my server up and running with all those which i could figure out.

I have proftp installed and would like to set it up.

I added a usergroup and added a user to belong to the user group.

and I tried doing an ftp to my linode and i get

" Connected to 70.85.16.60.

421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection

I tried opening an ftp connection from my linode server and it says

ftp: command not found .. it seems i don't have an FTP client…

I followed this to setup the proftp

http://www.debianhowto.de/howtos/en/proftpd/index.html

I was wondering if someone could help me or guide me to set it up.

Thanks

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I found vsftpd to be well-documented and easy-to-setup. It is reputed as being the most secure ftp server so that is a big plus.

Some fairly large ftp sites use vsftpd.

Since you're running Debian, just do:

apt-get install vsftpd

And tweak vsftpd.conf as needed.

> It is reputed as being the most secure ftp server so that is a big plus.

Yes… The kernel.org people moved to vsftpd last year, and there is a list of sites using it at http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ -- the list includes ftp.openbsd.org, ftp.debian.org and ftp.freebsd.org.

> Since you're running Debian, just do:

apt-get install vsftpd

And tweak vsftpd.conf as needed.

And be sure to read the documentation. There are otehr config files you may need to edit:

/etc/vsftpd.conf

/etc/ftpusers

/etc/ftpchroot

jp

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