*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Date sent: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:41:58 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: bowenw@xxxxxxxxxxx, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Copies to: Subject: RE: Updating VSFTPD from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1. Send reply to: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> On > Wed, 17 Mar 2004, William H. Bowen wrote: > > > 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 Matthew, Thank you for the additional info. Yes, my RH9 box was an upgrade from RH8 and vsftpd was about the only program I had problems with - otherwise the upgrade was quite smooth. Regards. Bill Bowen Sacramento, CA
