FTP Server on Leopard???

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FTP Server on Leopard???

I'm running Mac OS X Leopard Server and trying to setup individual ftp accounts for users, but point them to a specific folder of my choice. No matter what I do, I cannot get them to login to their "home" folder. I've even tried creating a sharepoint, but still no dice.

I tried another alternative, pureftpd, but that doesn't seem compatible with leopard at all. At least I can't get it to install. Tried installing it on 10.4.10 and it worked fine.

Pureftpd Manager also doesn't work on Leopard. It's actually on the list here of programs that are believed to not work on Leopard:

http://guides.macrumors.com/List:ApplicationsNot_Compatible_withLeopard

Is anyone else having the problem I'm having with trying to get an FTP server going on Leopard?

Anyone have a solution or alternative?

IT

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.1), Leopard Server

Posted on Dec 19, 2007 3:01 PM

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Jeff Langston

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165 points

Dec 19, 2007 11:33 PM in response to Israel Thompson

PureFTP Manager has been updated for Leopard. Try it again.

Jeff

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Answer 2

Dec 20, 2007 7:04 AM in response to Jeff Langston

All I'm showing on their news and download page is version 1.6.3 and that does not work on my system. Right now when I click on the download link it gives me a 404 error, so I couldn't try it again if I wanted to.

Is this the right place?: http://jeanmatthieu.free.fr/pureftpd/

IT

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Answer 3

Dec 20, 2007 7:08 AM in response to Israel Thompson

Hmm, I'm on the main page http://jeanmatthieu.free.fr/pureftpd/ right now and the very top entry dated Wednesday, 19 Nov 2007 says that PureFTPd Manager now runs on 10.5. Maybe an older page is cached in your browser? Regardless, here's the direct link to 1.7:

http://jeanmatthieu.free.fr/pureftpd/pkg/PureFTPd-Manager-1.7.dmg

Let us know how it works.

Jeff

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Answer 4

Dec 20, 2007 5:12 PM in response to Jeff Langston

Ok, yeah you are right. For some reason my cache wasn't updating in Safari.

I installed the new version and am still getting the following error:

Failed to open logfile at: /var/log/ftp.log

But the program proceeds to open. I'm wondering if i need to manually uninstall the older version to get rid of the error or if there is something else I need to do.

IT

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Answer 5

Dec 20, 2007 5:39 PM in response to Israel Thompson

It looks like a bug in the program. You might want to contact the developer. In the meantime, you can get rid of the message by issuing "sudo touch /var/log/ftp.log" in Terminal before you launch the Manager program.

Jeff

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foilpan

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1,385 points

Dec 20, 2007 6:23 PM in response to Israel Thompson

log file may be open by the old pureftpd process. be sure you only have one running (the newest).

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Answer 7

Dec 20, 2007 8:42 PM in response to foilpan

Thanks, i figure something like that was happening. I restarted the server and the error went away and Pureftp Manager started working properly.

Thanks everyone for your help!

IT

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