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Date:      Tue, 17 Apr 2001 02:31:33 -0600 (CST)
From:      Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
To:        Nader Turki <nturki@adelphia.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ProFTPD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104170224100.43274-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
In-Reply-To: <3ADBF9A5.D2D0B513@adelphia.net>

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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

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