Oftp RPM available

Most of the servers at Rexmere run the Red Hat Linux distribution which uses RPM as its software package format. From time to time, when I want to install software that isn't available in RPM form, I'll build an RPM package for that software and then install it. This allows me to run systems where all of the installed software can be managed by the tools provided by the RPM system. On the off chance that folks might find these packages useful, I'll make them available here.

The first of these is for oftpd a very simple anonymous ftp server. While it can be used as "normal" ftp server started by init(1) (and the RPM provides the scaffolding for such, you just need to use ntsysv or serviceconf to enable it -- look at /etc/sysconfig/oftpd to config), I find it most useful to set up quickie anonymous ftp service to get something that's here to there quickly on my internal network. The command line interface is simply:

# oftpd username /path/to/use/as/root

The source RPM is here.
The i386 binary RPM (for RedHat 8.0) is here.