Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:32:02AM -0700, James D. Parra wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to find proftpd rpm on the DVD, but it isn't show up in yast.
Where can I get it?
You can't, because we do not include it.
We only ship vsftpd and pure-ftpd.
Any specific requirements that only proftpd can fulfil?
When we set up the new German CTAN (that's the Comprehensive TeX
Archive Network, the main distribution point for TeX-related
software) host two years ago, proftpd had better support in
bandwidth throttling, user exemption, IP-based virtual host
configuration, and a few other small things that I don't remember
right now. :-) I haven't followed vsftpd development enough to tell
if that has changed by now.
That said, I don't think that proftpd is needed for your
run-of-the-mill ftp server. CTAN is a demanding ftp service --
alone the German CTAN node pushes 3TB every month, and the other
main nodes have similar traffic. We don't even know which traffic
our 120+ mirror nodes encounter, and expect our traffic to raise
even further in the next months and years to come.
And, proftpd's documentation is non-existant for all practical
purposes. It's UTSL software and that's a real PIA sometimes.
Joachim
(one of the CTAN maintainers)
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