Well, man vsftpd:<br><br>VSFTPD(8) BSD System Managerās Manual VSFTPD(8)<br><br>NAME<br> vsftpd - Very Secure FTP Daemon<br><br>SYNOPSIS<br> vsftpd [configuration file]<br><br>DESCRIPTION<br>
vsftpd is the Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Daemon. The server can be launched via a āsuper-serverā<br> Alternatively, vsftpd can be launched in standalone mode, in which case vsftpd itself will listen on the network. This latter mode is<br>
easier to use, and recommended. It is activated by setting listen=YES in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf. Direct execution of the vsftpd binary<br> will then launch the FTP service ready for immediate client connections.<br>
<br>OPTIONS<br> An optional [configuration file] may be given on the command line. This configuration file has to be owned by root. The default configu-<br> ration file is /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf.<br><br>SEE ALSO<br>
vsftpd.conf(5)<br><br>BSD March 8, 2001 BSD<br>(<br><br>Great. What does that say? Where are my flags? How do I issue a command to start the service?<br>man service:<br>
<br>NAME<br> service - run a System V init script<br><br>SYNOPSIS<br> service SCRIPT COMMAND [OPTIONS]<br><br> service --status-all<br><br> service --help | -h | --version<br><br>DESCRIPTION<br> service runs a System V init script in as predictable environment as possible, removing most environment variables and with current<br>
working directory set to /.<br><br> The SCRIPT parameter specifies a System V init script, located in /etc/init.d/SCRIPT. The supported values of COMMAND depend on the<br> invoked script, service passes COMMAND and OPTIONS it to the init script unmodified. All scripts should support at least the start<br>
and stop commands. As a special case, if COMMAND is --full-restart, the script is run twice, first with the stop command, then with<br> the start command.<br><br> service --status-all runs all init scripts, in alphabetical order, with the status command.<br>
<br>FILES<br> /etc/init.d<br> The directory containing System V init scripts.<br><br>ENVIRONMENT<br> LANG, TERM<br> The only environment variables passed to the init scripts.<br><br>SEE ALSO<br>
chkconfig(8), ntsysv(8)<br><br> Jan 2006 service(8)<br>(END)<br><br>And what exactly does that tell me? What is my command? What are my options?<br><br>Lots of stuff online? I went to several of the pages your googling revealed before posting and there wasn't anything substantial on any of them. Can you please be more specific?<br>
TIA,<br>V<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Rudi Ahlers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rudiahlers@gmail.com">rudiahlers@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Victor Subervi <<a href="mailto:victorsubervi@gmail.com">victorsubervi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi;<br>
> Now that it's installed, how do I start it and add a user? I can hardly<br>
> believe there is *no* documentation!<br>
> TIA,<br>
> Victor<br>
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There is plenty documentation:<br>
<a href="http://www.google.co.za/search?hl=en&ei=lCzzSrq9FM_14AaPqOTQAw&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAYQBSgA&q=how+to+use+vsFTPD&spell=1" target="_blank">http://www.google.co.za/search?hl=en&ei=lCzzSrq9FM_14AaPqOTQAw&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAYQBSgA&q=how+to+use+vsFTPD&spell=1</a><br>
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