I use vsftpd all the time for installs/updates without any problem.
Cool, we have a winner.
The firewall guy and I did a trace; the SLES installation process wasn't recognizing responses it was getting from the BSD ftpd I was running. Maybe if I'd looked longer and harder, I'd have found some configuration settings to make that daemon work, but Neale's assurance that vsftpd was enough to let me jump into that boat for a while. So far, so good.
Neale
Nick
