Setting up Amazon AWS EC2 ftp server with Linux and VSFTP:

Install vsftp (example for Ubuntu / Debian)

apt-get -y install vsftpd

Edit configuration file (in our example with local authentication and no guest user)

vi /etc/vsftpd.conf

write_enable=YES
anonymous_enable=NO
local_umask=022
local_enable=YES

#to add passive ftp:
pasv_enable=YES
pasv_max_port=12100
pasv_min_port=12000
port_enable=YES
pasv_address="your external instance ip or address"

and open inbound port range 20-21 and 12000-12100 in your security groups

Provided by: ForthScale systems, scalable infrastructure experts

just a nice transfer script

Following
#!/bin/bash
#
#
#

og_log_id=$1.log

function og_xml_upp_ftp {
ftp -n << EOF
open server
user (your user)" "
lcd (your directory)
bin
hash
put $og_log_id.gz
bye
EOF
rm (your directory)$og_log_id.gz
}

function og_logs_compess {
cp (your directory)$og_log_id /xtr/log_xfer
gzip /xtr/log_xfer/$og_log_id
}


case $1 in
'xml')
og_logs_compess
og_xml_upp_ftp
;;
'console')
og_logs_compess
og_xml_upp_ftp
;;
'both')
og_log_id=xml.log
og_logs_compess
og_xml_upp_ftp
og_log_id=console.log
og_logs_compess
og_xml_upp_ftp
;;

*)
echo "Usage: $0 (your text)"
exit 1
;;
esac