Using Alternate FTP Servers
Many alternate FTP server packages exist; the two most popular are Washington University's WU-FTP and the highly configurable ProFTPD.
WU-FTPD
Originally developed at Washington University to host what was once one of the most popular file-sharing and distribution locations on the Internet, the WUarchive, WU-FTPD, has gained in popularity to become the most frequently used FTP server in the world. It's the default FTP daemon in Linux and many commercial UNIX brands; its configuration differs from FreeBSD's default ftpd in a few subtle ways, but it has a few features that our ftpd does not, such as a configuration checking tool, on-the-fly compression and archiving, and limitations on access and transfers by time and ...
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