Re: Running vsftpd standalone vs inetd

2005-03-06 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Hi Pat, I wrote this to startup vsftpd. It is not the prettiest script and I am sure there is a way to do it better but it will give you a start. Place it in your /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory and make it executable. #!/bin/sh echo -n 'vsftpd' case "$1" in start)

Re: Running vsftpd standalone vs inetd

2005-03-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it better to run vsftpd standalone or using inetd? A friend of > mine told me that it's more secure to do it standalone, and apparently > that's the recommended method now. Somewhat, yes. A lot of people don't trust inetd at all, and most of its advan

Running vsftpd standalone vs inetd

2005-03-04 Thread Pat Maddox
Is it better to run vsftpd standalone or using inetd? A friend of mine told me that it's more secure to do it standalone, and apparently that's the recommended method now. If that's the case, how do I go about getting vsftpd to run when the machine boots up? It doesn't look like there's a vsftpd