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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: "J . S ." <johann@broadpark.no>
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Subject: Re: rc.local? crontab? what?
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On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:27:55PM +0100, J . S . wrote:
> I'm in the process of setting up an additional ftpd on my server
> (openftpd.org), which has been installed in user ftpd's home directory.
> The user ftpd has a nonexistent shell.
> 
> How can I get it loaded at startup?
> 
> I tried putting:
> 
> su ftpd -c /usr/home/ftpd/openftpd/sbin/ftpd
> 
> in /etc/rc.local, but I heard that doesn't work now that I removed ftpd's
> shell.

Have a look at /etc/inetd.conf on how the normal ftpd is started
and use a similair way to start yours.

Edwin

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