Installing vsftpd on RHEL (CentOS)

Check to see if vsftpd is installed:
[root@ftp ~]# rpm -q vsftpd
vsftpd-2.0.5-10.el5

If not just type “yum install vsftpd” and when the install is done, start vsftpd:

[root@rhel5 ~]# service vsftpd start
Starting vsftpd for vsftpd: [ OK ]

Note: The default anonymous ftp user home is “/var/ftp/”.