From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 28 2:22:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oxe.cs.umu.se (oxe.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66F2837B404 for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 02:22:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gren.cs.umu.se (rfc1413 says tdv94ped@gren.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.187]) by oxe.cs.umu.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06841; Tue, 28 May 2002 11:21:45 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 11:21:45 +0200 (MEST) From: Paul Everlund To: Gilbert Cc: Subject: Re: ftpd HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 May 2002, Gilbert wrote: > Hi there I am trying to start the ftpd as I cannot see it when I do a > "ps -ax" and I need to start it as I have to ftp into the server if > anyone can help me. > > I am running FreeBSD 4.5 stable and I have set it up in the inetd.conf > and the rc.conf. > > This is URGENT please Look in inetd.conf, to see if ftpd is uncommented, that is no # before ftpd. If there is a #, remove it, then do 'ps ax | grep inetd' to get inetd's pid, and last do 'kill -HUP inetd's-pid' To see it with 'ps ax' you must do ftp to your own server, as it will start first when it's needed by inetd. A very short explanation maybe, but I hope it will help you. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message