From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 24 08:10:54 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC89106564A for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:10:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from mail-pw0-f54.google.com (mail-pw0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AFBF8FC16 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:10:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi10 with SMTP id 10so2518679pwi.13 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:10:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.136.14 with SMTP id j14mr8214397wfd.57.1290586254003; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:10:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (118-93-172-88.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz [118.93.172.88]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v19sm9075013wfh.12.2010.11.24.00.10.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:10:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:10:47 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Kevin Kinsey Message-ID: <20101124081047.GA3327@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <4CEC4677.7554.3BF9432E@dave.g8kbv.demon.co.uk> <4CEC7B4D.7000608@daleco.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CEC7B4D.7000608@daleco.biz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Dave , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:10:54 -0000 On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 08:41:17PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: [...] > >Have a FTP server, so I can automate some of the web page graphics > >updates, from other systems that generate the data, and can FTP files > >across the LAN, also of course for general web page maintenance needs. > > The base system ftpd is run from inetd, a "super server" which can serve > several small protocols. Have a look at /etc/inetd.conf. The first "real" > line: > > #ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -l > > Uncomment that (remove the 'hash'), and save it (you'll have to be root > again, of course). An easier solutions would be to enable the ftp server in standalone mode via /etc/rc.conf: ftpd_enable="YES" -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." - Robert Frost