Tag Archive for 'FTP'

Allowing Access to FTP Disk Only Via FTP

For bandwidth shaping reasons, I wanted to be able to allow access to my FTP disk (mounted at /var/ftp) only via FTP (hosted by ProFTPd). As it turns out, this is quite easy to do using a couple of UNIX permissions tricks and some ProFTPd voodoo. Read on for the basic description of how I’ve done it. Continue reading ‘Allowing Access to FTP Disk Only Via FTP’

FTP Server Back!

Since I’m now back on Comcast as my backbone to the great intertubes, I’m able to re-enable the FTP server. I’m proud to announce that the FTP server is back and is available for immediate consumption. This should provide an added benefit over SFTP/SCP in that resuming transfers is easier; especially helpful since I get a great deal of dropped connections (Comcast, are you listening?) on long-lived and/or heavy-traffic sockets. Continue reading ‘FTP Server Back!’

…And From the Ashes, An FTP is Reborn

The good news: Charlie’s Server’s FTP service is back online, with all of the old data to boot!

The bad news: One of the drives in the FTP array died.

The ugly news: LVM didn’t want to activate the array in partial mode.

Read on for technical details and how I revived a dead LVM array with a missing drive.
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