[TriLUG] vsftp on Redhat - no xinetd conf file

[Jeffery Painter]

It looks that vsftp is setup as it's own service

 /etc/init.d/vsftpd {start|stop|restart|condrestart|status}

and configuration is handled through /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

HTH!

On 7 Jul 2003, Jon Carnes wrote:

> Am I crazy or is the vsftpd rpm package (In RedHat 9) missing the
> xinetd.d config file?  I thought the first time around that I had simply
> skipped a step, but I just installed it at another client (very
> carefully) and the file does not seem to be included.
> 
> Any hints? (yes the docs *do* say to use inetd or xinetd with vsftpd).
> 
> Here's the file I end up using (cranked from hand):
> ======
> # VSFTPD - Very Secure FTP Daemon
> #
> #
> service ftp
> {
>    disable = no
>    socket_type = stream
>    wait = no
>    user = root
>    server = /usr/sbin/vsftpd
>    log_on_success += DURATION
>    nice = 10
> }
> 
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