On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, William H. Bowen wrote: > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* > George, > > If you don't mind me jumping in in the > middle of this discussion, that list of FTP > programs looks pretty normal to me. Pretty > much matches (except for versions) my RH > 9 system. > > If you are running VSFTPD under XINETD, > the way I kill and restart it is via WebMin: go > to Servers, Extended Internet Services, and > you can stop and restart any service run via > XINETD there. You could consult the > documentation for XINETD to get the > command line syntax for this function, which > I do not remember off the top of my head. Of course, you need to install Webmin, which doesn't come with Fedora Core. The FC1 GUI tool for this is redhat-config-services. The command-line tool is chkconfig. If the service is listed in /etc/init.d, start and stop it with service vsftpd [stop|start]. If it's listed in /etc/xinetd.d, then it only starts on connection, so just turn it on or off. > > Regards, > Bill Bowen > Sacramento, CA > > P.S. I don't know if your experience with > Fedora is the same or not, but VSFTPD > seems to be much happier running under > XINETD on my RH9 box than as a stand- > alone (under XINETD was the default in > RH8; changed to stand-alone in RH9 for I > cannot remember what reason). From what I > can gather by reading the docs available out > there, even the developers of VSFTPD > recommend running the program under > XINETD. I've had it work fine both ways, but upgrading from xinetd mode in RH8 to daemon mode in RH9 caused some problems due to modified config files. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
