On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, George Lemos wrote: > Well its about 1AM and I'm about ready to make this a project to hopefully > finish in the morning. Me latest update to follow... > > I understand a few things better now.. Then possibly confused myself > further.. LOL > > I went into /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd and changed the line disable = YES to > disable = NO then entered the command /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart > This effectively shut down vsftpd. > > Then while reading some documentation online I noticed they listed the > command to start it via /etc/init.d/vsftpd start > I was not aware it had this option! I didn't think the RPM put that script > there. Did it? Maybe from the original fedora install. This STARTED the > vsftpd and ALSO read my configuration file! Anonymous was OFF, and the > banner I entered WAS displayed! vsftpd can be run either through xinetd or as a standalone daemon. If it runs through xinetd, then xinetd listens to the FTP port (see /etc/services) and when a connection is detected, it starts vsftpd and hands he connection off. When run as a daemon, vsftpd is started on boot by the script in /etc/init.d (AKA /etc/rc.d/init.d), and it listens for connections on its own. You should have only one of /etc/xinetd.d/vsfptd and /etc/init.d/vsftpd. In Red Hat 8, it was /etc/xinetd.d/vsfptd, but in Red Hat 9 (and Fedora), it's /etc/init.d/vsftpd. Also, you need to have the config file for vsftpd tell it which way it's running. In the daemon mode, the RPM version of /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf contains pam_service_name=vsftpd userlist_enable=YES #enable for standalone mode listen=YES tcp_wrappers=YES at the bottom. You can certainly switch between daemon mode and xinted mode, but if you're new at this, you should probably run things the way the packagers set them up. If you upgraded from RH8, it is possible that the update to this package didn't go smoothly. You might want to remove and reinstall the vsfptd RPM and reconfigure. Make sure you don't have /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd. > > Hopefully in the morning with a fresh mind and coffee I can be more > successful in working the xinetd route and getting it to start (as it is) > and ALSO reading the vsftpd.conf file so ANONYMOUS stays off, and the rest > of the config is read and used! > > Again.. Thanks to all that responded thus far you have been very helpful! > > Yawn.. Of to bed.. > > > /g > > > > > > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
