[plug] help with ftp and debian..

[Cameron Patrick]

Paul Stone wrote:

| hey im pretty much a linux newbie and just managed to install debian,
| I was wondering if someone could help me or point me in the right
| direction to installing an ftp service on this machine, as i want to
| use it as a web server and send files from my other machines to it.

"apt-get install apache proftpd" will get you started, then read the
docs about configuring them.  (e.g. proftpd doesn't allow anonymous
access by default - you have to specifically configure a directory to be
FTP'able.)

Cameron.