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**bmf360** · 07-27-2011

hello
I'm new with Linux OS and I need help.

I installed Red Hat Enterprise Server 6 for testing and really like. but have some problems with the vsftp server.

I have a video recorder which stores the video on my PC and do it with filezilla ftp windows. but now I have to store the videos on Red Hat 6.

How I can do it with vsftpd?
Is there another ftp server for Red Hat 6?

thanks

**atreyu** · 07-27-2011

What are the problems with vsftpd that you are experiencing?

Have you started it?

Code:

service vsftpd start

Check that it is listening:

Code:

netstat -tulnp|grep :21

Have you added a user account (can't use root by default)?

Code:

useradd -g users ftpuser
echo YOURPASSWORD|passwd --stdin ftpuser

Can you connect to the FTP server locally?

Code:

ftp localhost

If not, what errors do you get?

Is the firewall interfering? Disable it temporarily:

Code:

service iptables stop

**kdg1955** · 07-27-2011

Originally Posted by bmf360

hello
...
Is there another ftp server for Red Hat 6?
thanks

Hi,

I think vsftp is the most popular ftp server for Linux. Fedora (and certainly also Red Hat) have two other packages: ProFTPD Project: Home (an apache-like ftpserver) and Pure-FTPd (a lightweight FTP server). Both servers can be installed with yum

I only have experiences with vsftpd.

**bmf360** · 07-27-2011

The ftp server is already running, but I can not make user permissions.

When I enter my server it asks me username and password, I digit and not let me in.

Server Startup:

Code:

service vsftpd start    [ok]

Checkout:

Code:

netstat -tulnp|grep :21
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:21                  0.0.0.0:*                   LIST

Have you added a user account (can't use root by default)?
yes, I have my test user to the directory / home / bmf

Can you connect to the FTP server locally?
No, I cant connect my local server

Code:

ftp localhost
bash: ftp: no se encontró la orden

How do I fix this?

**kdg1955** · 07-28-2011

Can you connect to the FTP server locally?
No, I cant connect my local server

Code:

ftp localhost
bash: ftp: no se encontró la orden

How do I fix this?

It seems that you don't have the client FTP application (translation Spanish to English: bash: ftp: command not found). You can install it with yum

Code:

$> yum install ftp

**bmf360** · 07-28-2011

When I digit the code

Code:

$> yum install ftp

The result is:
[root@wowzalinux ~]# yum install ftp
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, subscription-manager
Updating Red Hat repositories.
Setting up Install Process
No package ftp available.
Error: Nothing to do

..::Thanks for your help::..

**atreyu** · 07-28-2011

That is odd! Is your yum setup working?

Code:

yum repolist
yum list available

Double-check that ftp is not already installed:

Code:

rpm -qV ftp
which ftp
whereis ftp
ls -l /usr/bin/ftp

Is your PATH screwed up?

Code:

echo $PATH

**bmf360** · 07-29-2011

Hello Atreyu.

These are the results:

Code:

[root@wowzalinux ~]# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, subscription-manager
Updating Red Hat repositories.
repo id        repo name                                                  status
NCSUopenoffice NCSUopenoffice for Enterprise Linux 6Server - x86_64 - Bas    10
rpmforge       RHEL 6Server - RPMforge.net - dag                          12097
repolist: 12107

ftp check :

Code:

[root@wowzalinux ~]# rpm -qV ftp
el paquete ftp no está instalado

[root@wowzalinux ~]# which ftp
/usr/bin/which: no ftp in (/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/root/bin)

[root@wowzalinux ~]# whereis ftp
ftp:

[root@wowzalinux ~]# ls -l /usr/bin/ftp
ls: no se puede acceder a /usr/bin/ftp: No existe el fichero o el directorio

PATH screwed

Code:

echo $PATH
/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/root/bin

**atreyu** · 07-29-2011

Do you have the original RHEL 6 installation media? If so, install the ftp package from there. I'm guessing you do not have a RH subscription set up on that box.

Mount the media and do something like:

Code:

rpm -ivh /mnt/rhel6dvd/Server/ftp-[0-9].*.rpm

**AnitaHummer** · 08-15-2011

is selinux enabled? to find out type

Code:

sestatus

if SElinux is enabled you will need to run

Code:

setsebool -P ftp_home_dir=1

and if you have rebooted the server since messing with it, the service will probably be off unless you tell it to run on start up with

Code:

chkconfig vsftpd on 3

you can check to see if its set to start up on boot (depending on the run level ) with

Code:

chkconfig vsftpd --list

which will display something like this..

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# chkconfig vsftpd --list
vsftpd          0:off   1:off   2:off    3:on    4:off    5:off    6:off

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