Installing proftpd

[Gabriel Dragffy]

Pete Holsberg wrote:
> Gabriel Dragffy keyed the following on 4/28/2007 6:18 AM:
>> Pete Holsberg wrote:
>>   
>>> I followed <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=79588> to install 
>>> proftpd on Kubuntu 6.10, and got this message:
>>>
>>> "ProFTPd is started from inetd/xinetd"
>>>
>>> I don't have either of those files. What do I do?
>>>
>>>     
>> I think you need to make ProFTP run in Daemon mode. I *think* there is a 
>> file in /etc/defaults for proftp, try editing this and telling it to run 
>> as a daemon, or to listen.
>>
>> Sorry I can't be more specific, it's years since I ran proftpd, recently 
>> I favour vsftpd.
>>   
> 
> I decided to install vsftpd instead. Thanks.
> 
> 
> 

Well the 'turning point' for me was that Proftpd was in Universe, 
whereas vsftpd is in main. Only main packages get security updates, 
really important for web services, and particularly so with ftp.