Re: [CentOS] vsFTP Question

Victor Subervi wrote:

Well, man vsftpd:

VSFTPD(8)                 BSD System Managerâs 

Manual VSFTPD(8)

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SEE ALSO
     vsftpd.conf(5)

Great. What does that say?

the flags are in that .conf file. so...

# man vsftpd.conf

lists the 100 or so options in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

Where are my flags? How do I issue a command to start the service? man service:

NAME
       service - run a System V init script

SYNOPSIS
       service SCRIPT COMMAND [OPTIONS]
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      The SCRIPT parameter specifies a System V init script, 

located in /etc/init.d/SCRIPT. The supported values of COMMAND depend on the invoked script, ...

And what exactly does that tell me? What is my command? What are my options?

ls -l /etc/init.d/ shows, amongst other files,

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1778 May 28 09:52 vsftpd

and, # service vsftpd gives... Usage: /etc/init.d/vsftpd {start|stop|restart|condrestart|status}

so, # service vsftpd start # service vsftpd restart # service vsftpd stop

would be the main commands you'd be interested in to start, restart, stop the service. and, as others said, # chkconfig vsftpd on

is how you configure it to autostart on reboot.

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?

maybe (l)Unix systems administrator is the wrong career path.

Also, if you prefer more 'book' like documentation, the CentOS/RHEL 5.2 Deployment Guide gives... http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Deployment_Guide/ch-ftp.html full documentation on vsftpd although this guide tends to lean on GUI configuration tools that I generally ignore in favor of the command line tools.

now, admittedly, none of that quite explains 'users'. thats because the 'users' that FTP supports are the SYSTEM users.

# groupadd ... # useradd .....

etc.