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From: Jake Hamby <hamby>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: setting up anonymous ftp
Date: 15 Sep 1995 00:57:11 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena CA
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If you're serious about anonymous FTP and want a heavy-duty server, you'll
probably want wu-ftpd 2.4, which is very customizable and has a lot of logging
and added functionality (for example a client could say "get mydir.tar.gz" on a
directory and it will automagically tar and gzip the directory into a single
downloadable archive... if you set the filters right on your end). All the big
FTP sites use wu-ftp, like Walnut Creek CDROM, and Wuarchive.wustl.edu (which
it's named after). Linux even comes with wu-ftpd by default but doesn't seem
to have a man page for it. You can download wu-ftpd from:
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/packages/wuarchive-ftpd/
It's also in the ports collection so you can just do a 'make' in
/usr/ports/net/wu-ftpd/ once you've downloaded the source...
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Jake Hamby | E-Mail: hamby@aris.jpl.nasa.gov
Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL
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