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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 configu...
We'll include overrides at both the beginning and end of the main config file in the next firmware release (6.5.1).
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.
Wow! That's screwed up. Unless there is a good reason for that, proftpd may not be as well written as I thought.
Well, I'm sure supporting virtual hosts and such adds some complexity to config parsing. I suppose we could include overrides at both the beginning and end of the main config file to work around this. But that won't make it for 6.5.0.
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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