On Mon, 27 May 2002, Mark Gallagher wrote:
> I feel a right dolt for asking this, but I can't think of anything.
>
> My knowledge of Linux (indeed, UNIX in general) is suficient for me to
> use it for day-to-day stuff, but more detailed things leave me far behind.
>
> Things like starting ftpd. That's right.
>
> How on earth do you start ftpd? Simply typing "ftpd" into a shell comes
> up with "ftpd: command not found" - the same occurs with variations of
> capitalisation like "Ftpd" and "FTPD". Various guesses like "start
> ftpd" and "init ftpd" don't work either.
technically, you don't "start" ftpd -- rather, you "enable" it so that
the xinetd super server daemon will invoke it on demand.
there are two kinds of system services:
standalone: those that are invoked at boot and run all the time
transient: those that are managed by the xinetd service, and will
be invoked only upon request.
run "chkconfig --list" and you'll see what i mean. the top part
of that list are the standalone daemons, the second part are the
transient daemons.
you should see "wu-ftpd" in there somewhere. all you can do with
transient services is:
# chkconfig wu-ftpd on
# chkconfig wu-ftpd off
at which point, while wu-ftpd will still not be running, at least
xinetd is now listening for requests on its behalf and will start
a wu-ftpd process when a request comes in.
rday
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