On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:38:17 +0000, Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > As I recall for that vintage of FreeBSD, it was simply a matter of > uncommenting > the appropriate line in /etc/inetd.conf [...]
Which would be something like ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/ftpd ftpd -ll Note that I've appended "ftpd -ll" to enable extended logging which is often useful when running an FTP server, so you can check things if problems occur. To make this setting take effect, "touch /var/log/ftpd.log" and !ftpd *.* /var/log/ftpd.log to your /etc/syslog.conf. I'm not sure if all these mechanisms have already been present on 2.0.5, because I'm a FreeBSD user since 4.0. Did 2.0.5 already have sysinstall? I seem to remember that when enabling FTP, a little subtree was created in /var/ftp. But I think it was related to anonymous FTP. If you're not going to use it - I didn't say anything. :-) > Enabling it to be automatically started on reboot is pretty much the same as > nowadays: just stick inetd_enable="YES" into /etc/rc.conf. Hasn't there been ,,ftpd_enable="YES"'' in 2.0.5's rc.conf already? Allthough I'm running FTP services, I've never used that setting (inetd is sufficient). > If you want to > provide anonymous FTP, then I believe there were instructions in the ftpd(8) > man page. At least on my (7-S) system it is the case, but there should be similar information in earlier man pages. It describes the stuff sysinstall does, as I mentioned (guessed) before. For security considerations, keep an eye on /etc/ftpusers; the names "ftp" (stands for anonymous FTP "account" - if you don't want to provide that service) and of course "root" should be contained. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"