Re: /home/ftp directory question

[Immanuel Yap <noelyap@ascus.cit.cornell.edu>]

On Wed Feb 24, 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> 
> On 24-Feb-99 Jesse Jacobsen wrote:
> > I missed the first part of this thread, but was wondering... do you have
> > separate /home/ftp/bin and /home/ftp/lib/ and /home/ftp/etc directories?
> > You need those under /home/ftp/ because the ftpd automatically changes
> > the root directory to /home/ftp.  There should be a list somewhere in
> > the docs as to what files you need there.  Pay special attention to the
> > permissions on those directories and files.  Also, I've noticed that
> > updates to the wu-ftpd package occasionally re-copy the appropriate
> > programs and libraries, so that the correct versions are available for
> > anonymous ftp use under /home/ftp/.
> 
> I installed Proftpd not wu-ftpd and those subdirectories are absent.
> Someone told me that is normal for a Debian install.  I suppose it won't be a
> problem unless I want to have anonymous ftp logins.

Proftpd is totally self-contained.  You don't need special bin/ or
lib/ subdirectories, even for anonymous ftp.

Noel