By viewing this error while using your ftp server, you may get the impression of some bug/problem in your ftp server. This is exactly what happened in the early morning when I got call that vsftpd server in one of the Amazon EC2 server stopped working. When tyring to transfer a file it’s showing something like this:
Error: Could not write to socket: Broken pipe
Unable to download file xxxx
For many users, running FTP Sever in Amazon EC2 instance is headache at the first time. You need to experiment before being able to transfer data. The main problems are Ingress firewall in Amazon environment and NAT traversal.
Here I’m using vsftp (vsfptd) Server, which is one of the most popular and easy to configure. The instance is running from base Fedora 4 AMI but the setup should be identical to other Red Hat based distros.
Install vsftpd FTP server, if not installed earlier:
$ yum install vsftpd