I'm trying to get ProFTPD installed, and I can't seem to pull down the package from the Cygwin repositories

Hey all, Is there a certain way one has to install ProFTPD for Cygwin these days? Is it only available as sources at the moment? I'm asking because I've tried installing it both via Cyg-Get and via Chocolatey and it's direct Cygwin integration. Neither way seems to bring the package into my

Got inetd working, still haven't figured out Xinetd

Hi all, As promised, I used the IU-Config script to configure Inetd, and while it mentions Xinetd, it only works for Inetd. What is the equivalent script to configure Xinetd; after all, is not Xinetd more secure? Thanks for the feedback. -- Problem reports:

attempting to get the latest version of Xinetd and Inetd going on the latest version of 64 bit cygwin

Hi all, I'm just learning how to do this, so please forgive me if I've missed something obvious. I'm in the process of installing Cygwin on a Windows 8.1 machine with the Inetutils package installed. My goal is to get Xinetd working properly so that I can define some other services with it.

setting up SFTP to a web site's files without changing the home directory

I have looked for this for a while now, and I can't seem to find a good explanation for it. I'm trying to set up an SSH server via Cygwin on my Windows Server machine so that me and maybe one other can update our web site running under IIS on that same server. I'd like to not have to change