Brain Drippings

I’ve been using pureFTPd on my Mac at least since OS X 10.4. I chose it primarily for two reasons. First, it has a large following, is actively developed, and is free; second, PureFTPd Manager was a very nice GUI for OS X that allowed you to very easily setup your server with a lot of options, manage it, and even watch it.
Unfortunately, this GUI no longer works with 10.6. At all.

Well, I thought, I can do this manually. And I could, but it was a long and sometimes hairy trip which took many wrong turns before leaving me at a working configuration.

Warning: there is a lot of bare-bones command-line compiling and Unix below. If the terminal shell scares you, stop reading now.
(continue reading…)