spoiled for choice on ftp

Bernd Petrovitsch bernd at petrovitsch.priv.at
Thu Feb 24 09:19:40 UTC 2011


On Die, 2011-02-22 at 18:25 +0000, David Collier wrote: 
> We have 2 versions of a product.
> 
> On the old one, inetd.conf starts off /sbin/ftpd on a new connection. I
> assume that ftpd is a busy-box applet ?

Why do you assume that?
You should actually go and look on the device as that "assumption" is
necessary for the rest of the mail (and the evolving thread).

> On the new one, an AVR32, someone seems to have gone and got, compiled

Was the old one a different one?
Is the OS/distribution/... on both products the same? products

Or did they change the "mainboard" and also changed one board-vendor
supplied distribution to another?
In that case, the second one comes with proftpd installed while the
first one didn't.

> and installed proftpd. Though ftpd still seems to be present!
> 
> [ I notice the link to ftpd has moved from /sbin to /usr/sbin  between
> version 0.6 and 1.17 of busybox- I assume that's not of huge significance.
> ]
> 
> --------------------------------------
> 
> So the question is - can anyone explain/guess why it might have been

The people which actually decided this should know best in the first
place.
And at that point of the mail there are far to many assumption and
unknown details so That I could make an reaaly educated guess.

> worthwhile to go and get proftpd, when ftpd seems to be there, and to
> have been fine on the previous model?

- They had customer complaints that some weird feature with some
  (MSFT-world) ftp-client isn't working and the simplest is (if you have
  enough space on the system) to cross-compile a real ftpd like vsftpd
  or proftpd.
- They use FTP for whatever themselves and needed a feature which isn't
  implemented/supported by busybox-ftpd and the simplest is (if you have
  enough space on the system) to cross-compile a real ftpd like vsftpd
  or proftpd.

The question as such is actually more organizational and
circumstances-defined than a technical one BTW.

Bernd
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