FTP and Desktop???

[FreeqGeek]

I have recently decided that I would like to set up a FTP server on my system and am looking for some advice on general configuration.

This is my primary machine, so I need to still be able to run an average desktop, as well as the server running in the background. Any advice??

[Craig McPherson]

The most common way to run a low-load FTP server is not as a standalone daemon, but rather through a superserver program, the most common of which are inetd and xinetd. The first thing you should do is choose and FTP server program -- I think you'll find that ProFTPD is the most popular around here, so let's just assume you've chosen that one. Grab the package for your distro (RPM, Deb, whatever), install it, and take a look at the configuration file it comes with. Edit it to your tastes. Configure your superserver (by editing inetd.conf or xinetd.conf -- the documentation should tell you how to do this), then restart the superserver and try to FTP to yourself to make sure it's working.

Please post back here if you have any more specific questions. Good luck!