Package: base
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
Installing FTP Server on debian
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Installed vsftpd and proftp with their default configuration.
* What was the outcome of this action?
suren@surendhar:~$ sudo aptitude install vsftpd
[sudo] password for suren:
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
suren@surendhar:~$ ftp localhost
ftp: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
ftp> exit
suren@surendhar:~$
suren@surendhar:~$ sudo netstat -tulnp | grep :21
[sudo] password for suren:
tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
2493/vsftpd
AFTER THIS VSFTPD IS UNINSTALLED.
suren@surendhar:~$ sudo aptitude install proftpd
Note: selecting "proftpd-basic" instead of the
virtual package "proftpd"
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libfile-copy-recursive-perl{a} proftpd-basic proftpd-mod-vroot{a}
update-inetd{a}
0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,534 kB of archives. After unpacking 4,465 kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Get: 1 http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian/ wheezy/main libfile-copy-recursive-perl
all 0.38-1 [20.6 kB]
Get: 2 http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian/ wheezy/main update-inetd all 4.43 [21.8 kB]
Get: 3 http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian/ wheezy/main proftpd-basic sparc
1.3.4a-5+deb7u1 [2,476 kB]
Get: 4 http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian/ wheezy/main proftpd-mod-vroot sparc
0.9.2-2+b2 [15.6 kB]
Fetched 2,534 kB in 18s (135 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Package configuration
