• install grid-ftp server using the YUM Package Manager:

It is recommended to take the gridFTP server from the IGE (Initiative for Globus in Europe) repository. Please configure IGE repositories

cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/IGE.repo << EOF
[IGE]
name=IGE
baseurl=http://repo-rpm.ige-project.eu/sl/sl5/x86_64/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://repo-rpm.ige-project.eu/RPM-GPG-KEY-IGE
EOF

cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/IGE-updates.repo << EOF
[IGE-updates]
name=IGE - Updates
baseurl=http://repo-rpm.ige-project.eu/sl/updates/sl5/x86_64/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://repo-rpm.ige-project.eu/RPM-GPG-KEY-IGE

IMPORTANT: If for any reason you do not want to use IGE repos, you can alternatively configure the system to use EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository.

• The configuration can be done by installation of yum-conf-epel.noarch package using the YUM Package Manager.

  yum install yum-conf-epel.noarch
  

Install the gridFTP server package:

yum install globus-gridftp-server-progs.x86_64

The grid-ftp server requires the X.509 certificate and key to be present in the following locations

• /etc/grid-security/hostcert.pem
• /etc/grid-security/hostkey.pem

The GridFTP server has to be configured to know the range of opened ports for connections. Please edit the /etc/xinetd.d/gsiftp file and set the GLOBUS_TCP_PORT_RANGE environment variable.

service gsiftp
{
 instances               = 100
 per_source              = 50
 socket_type             = stream
 wait                    = no
 user                    = root
 env                     += GLOBUS_TCP_PORT_RANGE=20000,25000
 server                  = /usr/sbin/globus-gridftp-server
 server_args             = -i  -l /var/log/globus-gridftp.log
 server_args             += -d ERROR,WARN
 log_on_success          += DURATION
 nice                    = 10
 disable                 = no
}

• If needed please install the xinetd tool first

  yum install xinetd.x86_64
  

IMPORTANT: Do not forget to start or reload xinetd service.

service xinetd reload

service xinetd start

If you plan to transfer large files we advice you to adjust system wide TCP keepalive: parameters:

echo "600" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time
echo "75" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_intvl
echo "9" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_probes

In order to make the changes persistent add it also to the /etc/sysctl.conf