custom ftp

[gratitude182]

could somebody tell me how i can set up a custom ftp server on the wl-700?

i have tried to follow this guide:

http://www.macsat.com/macsat/content/view/25/29/

but how do i set up the xinetd? and how do i get the custom ftp started with the rc.local?

would be nice if somebody could help me!

thanks
grat182

[kfurge]

If you only want to reconfigure the existing ftp server, you don't need to run xinetd. Just add these lines to rc.local:

killall vsftpd
/sbin/vsftpd /opt/etc/vsftpd.conf &

You can copy /etc/vsftpd.conf to /opt/etc/vsftpd.conf and customize as necessary for your setup.

- K.C.

[sollie]

Thanks Kfurge, this is what i was looking for.

Sollie.

[gratitude182]

thanks kfurge thats it...

but i have one question:

the vsftpd now starts with the opt/etc/vsftpd.conf

i have copied the original asus vsftpd.conf from etc to opt/etc and i have modified nothing.

but when i start the vsftpd with the opt/etc/vsftpd.conf i get the following error when i connect to the router:

[R] 220 Welcome to the WL700gE FTP service.
[R] USER myusername
[R] /dev/nvram: No such file or directory
[R] 331 Please specify the password.
[R] PASS (hidden)
[R] /dev/nvram: No such file or directory
[R] /dev/nvram: No such file or directory
[R] 230 Login successful.
[R] SYST
[R] 215 UNIX Type: L8
[R] FEAT
[R] 211-Features:
[R] EPRT
[R] EPSV
[R] MDTM
[R] ICNV
[R] PASV
[R] REST STREAM
[R] SIZE
[R] TVFS
[R] 211 End
[R] PWD
[R] 257 "/"
[R] TYPE A
[R] 200 Switching to ASCII mode.
[R] PASV
[R] 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,1,133,31)
[R] Opening data connection IP: 192.168.1.1 PORT: 34079
[R] LIST -al
[R] 150 Here comes the directory listing.
[R] 226 Transfer done (but failed to open directory).
[R] List Complete: 0 bytes in 0,05 seconds (0,0 KB/s)

does somembody knows a solution?

thanks
grat182

[kfurge]

The error messages you're seeing are very interesting. A little investigation revealed that Asus has messed a little bit with the base vsftpd source code. They added code to check to see if the router is ubsa mode in a number of places by querying the nvram. For some reason the queries don't seem to be working for you.

I tested a little bit further on my box and vsftpd works OK for me when started as root from the command line as shown.

A few questions come to mind:

Are you starting it as root? If you're starting if from rc.local can you try just starting it from a command line instead and see if it works better?

Finally, it's wierd that it can't find /dev/nvram. Are you running it in a chrooted environment?

- K.C.

[gratitude182]

thanks for help kfurge.

its started as root... (manually started) but its the same whith the rc.local

631 root 688 S /sbin/vsftpd /opt/etc/vsftpd.conf

what do you mean with that?

Are you starting it as root? If you're starting if from rc.local can you try just starting it from a command line instead and see if it works better?

i have only added the two things in the rc.local

killall vsftpd
/sbin/vsftpd /opt/etc/vsftpd.conf &

i think i have a chrooted enivornment.

2 weeks ago i have changed the permissions in the opt/home/username dir to chmod 755. because dropbear won't worked anymore. (and i hadn't changed the permissions earlier!) now dropbear works but i don't know if i made something wrong....

grat182