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Date:      Sun, 27 Jan 2002 08:36:48 +1100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        "J . S ." <johann@broadpark.no>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rc.local? crontab? what?
Message-ID:  <20020127083648.P823@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020126152755.3bc451ec.johann@broadpark.no>; from johann@broadpark.no on Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:27:55PM %2B0100
References:  <20020126152755.3bc451ec.johann@broadpark.no>

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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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