Victor Subervi wrote:
> Well, man vsftpd:
>
> VSFTPD(8) BSD System Managerâs
> Manual VSFTPD(8)
>
> ....
>
> 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]
> ...
> 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.