From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 15:28:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E83A6106568B for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:28:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71DB18FC1B for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:28:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 6so1726635eyi.7 for ; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:28:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Sk4cgb2O3pKhDfnyHhTgJ2WShPqsFwWSJNnuqrzLTlA=; b=hJi1TnS2VGvH2TfX2Yw/mIRuqAB4QP7P/FuNUpZAnQETWvGn5T0452mb+foOmCRcEw ACAgNKKKoiwJkaRoPVy2/4k1NAib/stquAUsph4AF7F3WlpztejErRD6X7/dErf9mnAA aGpOXcD/tOXeohLUVtA59uqkveYcjlDjlECo4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Wz3ZH5cpD6oMQ+piFT8Dik4qph3VQvvvvJqlQZmKcEYBXXtovzvjI0F348k4KULDdi gf5QRCpQZmCaLVV3JWE0juUFz/TZeetmM20xu/+PxMHzsvk0I/HIMd1gVpv42tKDqhVh tIggmND1V1q0yraRGITN8pAK/8NDBEAqHoKY4= Received: by 10.210.81.10 with SMTP id e10mr16607578ebb.122.1228404495314; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:28:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from atlantis.dyndns.org (athedsl-316593.home.otenet.gr [85.72.92.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b30sm8747907ika.7.2008.12.04.07.28.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:28:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4937F70B.6090901@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:28:11 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081011) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Raseley References: <000901c955c0$49caf790$dd60e6b0$@com> In-Reply-To: <000901c955c0$49caf790$dd60e6b0$@com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Important Omission in FTP Configuration Documentation X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:28:17 -0000 Richard Raseley wrote: > Documentation Project Owner, > > > > Recently I started my first foray into the world of FreeBSD, thus far I have > been pleasantly surprised, but I have also found a document on your site > that has an important omission. > > > > In this document: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ftp.html > > > > In section 30.8.2 "Configuration" you list the steps that are required to > get ftpd up and running, however you fail to mention that you also have to > add "ftpd_enable="YES" to your "/etc/rc.conf" file and reboot the server. > > > > Ftpd will not work until you complete this step and it took me hours (being > a n00b) of additional research to figure this out. It would be very helpful > if you included this in your documentation so that others like myself can > find it easily. > > > > Thank you for your continued work, so far (coming from a Windows world) I am > very impressed. > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Richard > > First of all, thanks for helping us improve our documentation! The problem with your setup is that you probably missed enabling the inetd server. This is not mentioned explicitly in the section you were reading, but it is mentioned in section 30.2.2. If you add inetd_enable="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf and reboot, and having followed the rest of the instructions, your ftp server will be started (when needed) by inetd. To make things clear, I have added a reference to section 30.2.2 in section 30.8.2 By adding ftpd_enable="YES", the ftp server is started in stand-alone mode. The inetd setting is not required in this case. I have also added a few lines on this alternate way of starting ftpd. These changes will appear on the website in the next 24 hours. Thanks for submitting this! manolis@