Enabling FTP Server in MacOS

Hello,

I've been trying to install and enable a FTP server in MacOS High Sierra, but somehow I did not get it to run.

What I did was: Using Homebrew to install proftpd (alternatively: pure_ftpd). I don't need anonymous access, but have an user which is called "ftpuser". The home directory of that user is a particular path on the hard disk, where all files should land, coming in through ftp.

While installing and starting up services is very easy with brew, the services are being terminated very fast.

Something like:

(proftpd)

Nov 25 19:17:02 mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (homebrew.mxcl.proftpd[4916]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1

(pure-ftpd)

Nov 25 19:54:24 mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (homebrew.mxcl.pure-ftpd): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Now it could be that I didn't set up the config-files properly, or that something else is going wrong - I just don't know how to proceed. Unfortunately, there is also no log file saved for the proftpd daemon, even though I configured a log file to be written. Also unfortunately there seem to be no walkthroughs whatsoever when it comes to configuring the packages installed via brew.

Maybe one of you has successfully configured proftpd from the command line and can give some orientation?

Thanks in advance and kind regards,

Olaf.