rh8.? vs slack, putty ... (formerly 're: [Lvlug] I was bored..')

[Faber Fedor]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 10:34:28AM -0400, jab wrote:
> and thus, we revisit our conversation of a few nights ago.
> for all's enlightenment: i'm on rh6.2 and spoke with linc
> the other night regarding what to upgrade to.
> 
> how about a vote from the masses?
> 
> rh8.? ... or do the slack?  (pros and cons of each welcome)

If you can upgrade to RH 8, let me know how you did it!  All I have been
able to get out of Red Hat is the version they just released, 7.3. :-)

RH7.3 is pretty good.  Lotsa bells and whistles.  

> the psftp error msg is:
> 
>     Connected to xxx.com
>     bash: exec: sftp-server: not found
>     Server sent command exit status 127
>     Fatal: unable to initialise SFTP: could not connect

Yep, sounds like there is no sftp server on the box.

> now, if this is somehow spawned via inetd (or, pursuing abstraction:
> any other suitably compartmentalized remote services server ...),
> shouldn't i be able to 'drop' in a secure ftp 'server' in the same
> 'area' in which ssh, quite obviously, already runs?

Sure.  Find out what port sftp uses (115 according to my /etc/services),
isntall an sftp server and the ntell inetd (or xinetd these days) to
fire it up whenever a connection comes in via port 115.


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Regards,
 
Faber                     

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