Information about the package, pure-ftpd, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The pure-ftpd package is designed for, Lightweight, fast and secure FTP server.
Package Name:
pure-ftpd
Summary:
Lightweight, fast and secure FTP server
Description:
Pure-FTPd is a fast, production-quality, standard-comformant FTP server, based upon Troll-FTPd. Unlike other popular FTP servers, it has no known security flaw, it is really trivial to set up and it is especially designed for modern Linux and FreeBSD kernels (setfsuid, sendfile, capabilities) . Features include chroot()ed and/or virtual chroot()ed home directories, virtual domains, built-in 'ls', anti-warez system, bounded ports for passive downloads, FXP protocol, bandwidth throttling, ratios, LDAP / MySQL / PostgreSQL-based authentication, fortune files, Apache-like log files, fast standalone mode, text / HTML / XML real-time status report, virtual users, virtual quotas, privilege separation and more.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.0.45
Release:
1.cp1156
Size:
599 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the pure-ftpd package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install pure-ftpd
This command will install pure-ftpd on the server.
yum remove pure-ftpd
This command will un-install pure-ftpd on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pure-ftpd, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove pure-ftpd
This command will un-install pure-ftpd on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove pure-ftpd when using the -y flag.
yum update pure-ftpd
This command will update pure-ftpd to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pure-ftpd, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update pure-ftpd
This command will update pure-ftpd to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove pure-ftpd when using the -y flag.
yum info pure-ftpd
This command will show you core information about the pure-ftpd package.
yum deplist pure-ftpd
This command will show you the dependencies for pure-ftpd. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update pure-ftpd
This command will check if there is an update waiting on pure-ftpd. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.