gridftpd - GridFTP server configuration made easy!

Table of contents

• Description
• Prerequisites
• Init scripts
• Functionality
• Installation
• License

Description

Get your Globus GridFTP server up and running in less than a minute.

Prerequisites

• Globus GridFTP server binaries installed
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and compatible: install globus-gridftp-server-progs package (either from the EPEL repository or from the Globus repository)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10/11: install globus-gridftp-server-progs package (AFAIK only available from the Globus repository)
• Shipped Globus GridFTP server init scripts disabled (/etc/init.d/{globus-gridftp-server|globus-gridftp-sshftp})
• host certficate and key (two copies, one for the frontend and one for the backend(s), each owned by the respective users, e.g. globus for the frontend and root for the backend(s)) available
• trusted CA certificates available
• grid-mapfile configured

Init scripts

This repository provides System V init scripts for the Globus GridFTP server for the following Linux distributions:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6)
• Community ENTerprise Operating System 6 (CentOS6)
• Scientific Linux 6 (SL6)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES11)

Functionality

The following functionality is provided:

• Dialogue installer (incl. defaults) - You can change any of the defaults (like installation dir, used certificates and keys, ports, FQDNs, number of backends, etc.) or just accept them. No further configuration needed for the GridFTP processes, if defaults are OK for you.

• You can have multiple different GridFTP services on the same machine (e.g. internal/external GridFTP services for multi-homed hosts) if you provide a different name and FQDN for the service.

• The number of backends is set during installation (e.g. if you want six backends, then you just need to provide the number and the first backend port and the installer will prepare all needed configuration files) but can also be changed later in the init script configuration file. If you aren't happy with the number configured during installation, stop the service, increase or decrease the number (GRIDFTPD_BACKENDS_NUMBER) and restart the service. The init script will then start as many backends as you have configured in the init script configuration. Any backends that don't have been configured during the initial installation step will use the default configuration. You can adapt this by creating (a) separate configuration file(s) for the desired backend(s).

• By using a specific FQDN during installation (default is what hostname --fqdn prints out), you can determine the network interface the GridFTP processes should use

• You can include backends or frontends from other hosts (GRIDFTPD_ADDITIONAL_BACKENDS, GRIDFTPD_ADDITIONAL_FRONTENDS)

• start/stop up to one (unprivileged) GridFTP frontend process (PI) and one or more (privileged) GridFTP backend processes (DTPs) locally

• per process configuration files

• activate a specific frontend or specific backends by making its configuration files executable or non-executable

• list status of all activated and running GridFTP service processes locally

• reload changed configuration files on the fly

Installation

1. Download the most current tarball from 1 or head to the releases page on 2 and fetch a specific release

2. Unpack to a temporary dir

3. Enter the directory named after your target OS (e.g. SLES10, CentOS6, etc)

4. Run the installer (preferrably as root)

# ./install.sh

5. After installation you should be able to start the GridFTP service with the following command (assuming you used the defaults)

# /etc/init.d/gridftpd start

License

(GPLv3)

Copyright (C) 2013 Frank Scheiner
Copyright (C) 2014, 2015 Frank Scheiner, HLRS, Universitaet Stuttgart

The software is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License

This software is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.