Re: [expert] wuftpd gone from ML 9? And updating in general....

2002-10-03 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 16:09, Vox wrote: David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the list of packages, I couldn't help but notice that wuftpd is not being made available. Does anyone know any particular reasons that that package has been omitted? It's what I'm currently using, but

RE: Re: [expert] wuftpd gone from ML 9? And updating in general....

2002-10-03 Thread James Sparenberg
Asunto: Re: [expert] wuftpd gone from ML 9? And updating in general On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 18:09:23 -0500, Vox wrote wu-ftpd has a looong history of bad security, so the mdk people has (wisely, IMNSHO) chosen to use proftpd. But wu-ftpd does seem to be in cooker, so...they may

Re: [expert] wuftpd gone from ML 9? And updating in general....

2002-10-03 Thread Scott St. John
At 10:13 PM 10/2/2002 -0500, you wrote: Seen it...it's quite nice...and the login-from-db is a nice thing...I just don't have enough users to warrant my writing a php frontend for the silly thing, so I stick to proftpd :) Now...if you put the one you are writing under GPL or another

Re: [expert] wuftpd gone from ML 9? And updating in general....

2002-10-03 Thread Toshiro
On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 18:09:23 -0500, Vox wrote wu-ftpd has a looong history of bad security, so the mdk people has (wisely, IMNSHO) chosen to use proftpd. But wu-ftpd does seem to be in cooker, so...they may just have gotten rid of it on the release ISOs. But they haven't got

[expert] wuftpd gone from ML 9? And updating in general....

2002-10-02 Thread David Guntner
I've just started doing my package upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0 (I read in the Mandrake forum where someone had done a package update first, then started it over again and did the just plain update, and got really good results, so I'm trying that). In the list of packages, I couldn't help but

Re: [expert] wuftpd gone from ML 9? And updating in general....

2002-10-02 Thread Vox
David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the list of packages, I couldn't help but notice that wuftpd is not being made available. Does anyone know any particular reasons that that package has been omitted? It's what I'm currently using, but I'd sure hate to miss a security update

Re: [expert] wuftpd gone from ML 9? And updating in general....

2002-10-02 Thread Scott St. John
On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 18:09:23 -0500, Vox wrote wu-ftpd has a looong history of bad security, so the mdk people has (wisely, IMNSHO) chosen to use proftpd. But wu-ftpd does seem to be in cooker, so...they may just have gotten rid of it on the release ISOs. I am glad they left it out,

Re: [expert] wuftpd gone from ML 9? And updating in general....

2002-10-02 Thread Vox
Scott St. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 18:09:23 -0500, Vox wrote wu-ftpd has a looong history of bad security, so the mdk people has (wisely, IMNSHO) chosen to use proftpd. But wu-ftpd does seem to be in cooker, so...they may just have gotten rid of it on the