Use ProFTPD. It has a MUCH better security record, is fast,
lightweight, and configuration is a breeze if you have ever configured
Apache. I made the switch several months ago and would never go back.
"Ralf G. R. Bergs" wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> my wu-ftpd is constantly crashing. :-(
>
> About half a dozen times per hour (sometimes even more often) I see lines in
> syslog like the following, which indicate crashed instances:
>
> wu-ftpd[28359]: exiting on signal 11: Segmentation fault
>
> Before I upgraded from stable to frozen my FTP daemon (wu-ftpd-academ then)
> was rock solid (I have FTP guests on my box 24 hours per day, from 10 users
> max to 25 max.) Now I have the above errors.
>
> When I learnt about the recently published buffer-overflow bug in wu-ftpd, I
> thought this was the reason, so I immediately installed the fixed version
> (2.6.0-5.1.) But to no avail, the crashes still occur. :-(((
>
> I'm running wu-ftpd from xinetd as follows:
>
> service ftp
> {
> socket_type = stream
> protocol = tcp
> wait = no
> user = root
> server = /usr/sbin/wu-ftpd
> instances = 30
> log_type = SYSLOG local6
> log_on_failure += HOST
> }
>
> Any idea what's causing this? My system is completely "frozen" (i.e. Debian-
> version-like :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ralf
>
