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Is FrontView ProFTPd Custom Configuration Broken?
I am running ReadyNAS 6.4.2 and need to do some custom configuration for proftpd, beyond what FrontView permits. The default configuration for proftpd is in /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf . This configuration file in turn include multiple conf files from /etc/frontview/proftpd which can be adjusted from FrontView.
The /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf includes an instruction not to modify this file directly (presumably because it may change on release and would not be backed up as part of the FrontView configuration). Instead it includes a /etc/frontview/proftpd/proftpd.conf.overrides file where presumably users can override the proftpd configuration without these drawback.
So far, fair enough.
The problem is that /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf includes /etc/frontview/proftpd/proftpd.conf.overrides as its first line, not its last! So the net effect is that the overrides are overridden by the default rather than overriding the defaults. That is not very useful and can't have been the intention, can it?
We'll include overrides at both the beginning and end of the main config file in the next firmware release (6.5.1).
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That's not how proftpd works. It keeps the first configured setting, so overrides must be at the beginning.
Are you positive? That is possible, of course, but unusual and all my tests confirm that it is the *last* value set that takes, not the first.
Well, it looks like it's not exactly black-and-white. Some settings take the first value, other settings take the last value. That's no fun.
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