Installing and setting up FTP on Fedora 9

[P38Lightning]

Hi guys,

I need help installing and configuring Fedora 9 as an FTP server. This computer will mainly get used for flashing firmware and the like, what program would be best and how do I set it up?

Thanks

[scottfones]

I'm not sure what your set up or needs are, but you may want to look at using ssh. I found a guide here.

Copying files back and forth can be accomplished with scp on the command line or with gui-goodness using gftp.

I'm not sure how helpful this will be, but the oldest, official guide I could find is here.

[P38Lightning]

I can't get past the first step in the first guide you game me cause it says that "service" is not a command. That has been my biggest issue with setting up this system is that it rejects most of the normal linux commands.

[scottfones]

I found another guide here, but it is also using that command.

Are you root when you issue it? Have you tried /sbin/service?

I should point out that it looks like the guide linked in this post is trying to set up X11 forwarding, which you may not want.

[smr54]

The reason service isn't working is because it's not in the path in Fedora 9. I have an old page on this, which, as the page says, is not relevant to newer versions of Fedora.

http://home.roadrunner.com/~computer...su/rhpath.html

[William Haller]

Once you have ssh running, you can also use sftp over the same connection to give similar functionality to normal ftp operations. If ssh doesn't end up working for you , look at vsftpd.

[P38Lightning]

I got ssh running but now I need to know how to use it. For example say I want to reflash the bios on a pc, not upgrade just completely reflash it, how would I go about that with ssh?

[scottfones]

I've never used ssh to flash the bios, but I did find this article.

Hope it helps.

[P38Lightning]

Thank you, I have that installed, now I am off to read it's manual and see how it works.

[aahmed1999]

I installed fedora12 on my pc but i face problem for ftp installation