Pure-FTPd is a free (BSD), secure, production-quality and standard-conformant FTP server. It doesn't provide useless bells and whistles, but focuses on efficiency and ease of use. It provides simple answers to common needs, plus unique useful features for personal users as well as hosting providers. You can enable optional (not-autodetected) features by passing variables to the script (VAR=yes/no ./pure-ftpd.SlackBuild): MYSQL=yes|no (default: no), requires mysql (available in Slackware) PGSQL=yes|no (default: no), requires postgresql TLS=yes|no (default: no), requires openssl (available in Slackware) LANGUAGE=english|german|french ... (default: english, see http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/doc/README for a complete list) If you want to start the pure-ftpd daemon at boot, add this to /etc/rc.d/rc.local # Start pure-ftpd: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.pure-ftpd ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.pure-ftpd start fi to stop it at shutdown add the same lines, changing "start" with "stop", to /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown