George Lemos wrote:
After I ran the command: rpm -qa "*ftp*" the following results were displayed.
lftp-2.6.10-1 ftp-0.17-18 vsftpd-1.2.0-5 gftp-2.0.14-5
Is this standard stuff for fedora? I am not familiar with any of these from what I have read.
[bevan@saladin ~]> rpm -qa "*ftp*" ftp-0.17-18 gftp-2.0.14-5 lftp-2.6.10-1
ftp is the old fashioned, bare bones, ftp client.
lftp is fancier, but still command line.
gftp is graphical.
vsftpd is the 'very small ftp daemon', a good choice if you need to run a small ftp server.
What in your opionion is the proper way to kill a vsftpd process when using xinetd?
'kill' is the usual way to kill any process. That said, it sounds like you want to make sure that xinetd won't be running vsftpd for new requests.
1) Look for /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd and edit it to say something like 'disable = yes', then restart xinetd ('service xinetd restart')
2) If you aren't running other services through xinetd, just turn the whole thing off: 'chkconfig xinetd off; service xinetd stop'
