I have often noticed that while running ftp server with ProFTP there are strange f’s coming with ipadress like FFFF:11.33.44.99 I got this fixed by disabling IPv6 used by Proftp. Just put this one line in your proftp configuration file /etc/proftpd.conf UseIPv6 off You can see the changes while analysing the /var/log/secure log file for [...]

This Shell script will search the server logs on daily basis and will email you the successful Ftp Logins of the day. The ftp logs are saved in the /var/log/messages file as by default there is no separate log file for Ftp in Linux.

DA comes with support for ProFTPD mod_tls however there are several problems with mod_tls. 1) It only encrypts the control channel of FTP, leaving the actual data transferred still in clear text. 2) That also causes problems with FTP traversal of firewalls since the firewall can’t see which ports are going to be needed, although [...]