RHFC1 - Installing an ftp SERVER - please help

[spdorsey]

Hello

I have a RedHat FC1 box dedicated as a MythTV video recorder. It also plays .avi, .mpg, and .wmv files on the TV, so I'd like to have FTP access to it so that I can drag files back and forth easily from my Mac - which I use to download the files.

Problem: When I installed RedHat, I somehow managed not to install the FTP server. I don't know how I did it, but there is no FTP item listed in the services window in RedHat.

Since I invisted all this time getting MythTV up and running (I may not ba able to do that again), I need to find a way to install an ftp server so that I can easily upload/download files.

Can anyone recommend an FTP server AND a place to download it? A friend recommended WUFTP, but I could find no entry for it at sourceforge.net, and it was not available using Synaptic in redHat.

Can I boot from my RedHat CDs and install the FTP server without re-installing the whole system?

Thanks,

------------------Steve

[kihbord]

Hi spdorsey,

You can install vsftpd, the ftp software that came with RHFC1. You can find it in your RHFC1 CD. To install it just execute the following command as root:

# rpm -ivh {directory_of_RHFC1_CD_containing_vsftpd}/vsftpd-1.2.0-5.i386.rpm

or install it via the Internet using the command:

# rpm -ivh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/vsftpd-1.2.0-5.i386.rpm

Hope that helps.