From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 1:31:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5CD37B440 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 01:31:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA84675; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 02:31:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 02:31:33 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Nader Turki Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ProFTPD In-Reply-To: <3ADBF9A5.D2D0B513@adelphia.net> Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nader Turki wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > hi there, > i installed ProFTPD from the ports but it's not workin' > do i have to do anything else other than make; make install; make clean? > Yes. Start the daemon, or run it from inetd. It won't start automatically after an install (that would be silly ;-). Disable the old (stock) ftpd in /etc/inetd.conf by commenting out (#) the line that it appears on. If you want to run ProFTPD under inetd, add the appropriate line to /etc/inetd.conf. Something like the following will suffice ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/ftpd ftpd -a -l Check the location of ProFTPD (I'm guessing, here), and check the suitability of the command line arguments. If, on the other hand, you want to run ProFTPD as a standalone daemon (this works well, too, and is recommended if you run a busy FTP server with many connections), disable the old FTPD in /etc/inetd.conf as described, and then create a script named "proftpd.sh" in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ When ProFTPD installed, it probably put a "proftpd.sh.sample" or something to that effect in that directory. Just rename it, chmod 555 proftpd.sh, and ProFTPD will start automatically when you reboot. To invoke it yourself (saving a reboot), just invoke that shell script (type "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/proftpd.sh start"). > thanks, > nader HTH, - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message