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How do I find out or know whether or not an FTP client is enabled or disabled on my Linux machine?

If it is disabled, how do I enable it?

I have a Linux 2.6.9-67.ELsmp

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  • As implied in my answer below. If you install Open SSHD on your system, as everyone should do, you can avoid FTP, and get a much more secure file transfer (SFTP) that works just as easily as FTP would. And, obviously, if you want a SFTP client, use psftp .
    – djangofan
    Nov 9, 2014 at 1:39

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type ftp in the shell and look for what it says.

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  • Simple and most likely effective. :)
    – Hennes
    Nov 9, 2014 at 0:00
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For future reference, use:

https://serverfault.com/

https://superuser.com/

Downvoted, but to be constructive:

I assume you mean FTP server and not client. You could try ftp localhost to see if you're running one. How to "enable" it depends on your distribution. Shot in the dark might be sudo apt-get install proftpd or similar.

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  • yaa ftp server means i would like to simple do file transfer using ftp
    – amit tomar
    Jul 12, 2010 at 13:59
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    Its actually more difficult (slightly) to setup a regular FTP server than it is to use SFTP. You might as well use SFTP.
    – djangofan
    Jan 26, 2012 at 20:07
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To enable FTP , just install the package "sshd" . Then you can connect to your server with a SFTP client like Putty or PSFTP.

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  • ssh(d) does not provide a FTP server. (it might provide an sFTP server but depite the similar names they are quite different. FTP is ancient, plain text and not used anymore. sFTP is much more modern and uses encryption).
    – Hennes
    Nov 9, 2014 at 0:00
  • @Hennes - you are incorrect about that. starting with version 5, there is an available SFTP subsystem for sshd. Notice that I did not suggest that he use FTPS.
    – djangofan
    Nov 9, 2014 at 1:36

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