FTP: Which deamon is used?/ How to restart this deamon?

**Hermanh** · 02-04-2003, 02:53 AM

I've turned my knoppix box, running from CD, into an ftp-server. I use the command

Code:

/etc/init.d/inetd

to start it.
To configure it right I need to know which deamon is started.
I know it's not proftp.
Does anyone know which one knoppix uses?

I need to know this, so I can find out how to restart it after reconfiguration.

Thanks.

**Tigren** · 02-04-2003, 06:04 AM

it uses ftpd iirc.

**Hermanh** · 02-04-2003, 10:35 AM

Thanks. Now I know which man-pages I should look at.

**Hermanh** · 02-04-2003, 03:27 PM

Tigren,

Are you sure? I can not find any howto's or man-pages on that.

**Tigren** · 02-04-2003, 03:58 PM

works for me:
ftpd - Internet File Transfer Protocol server
.

**Hermanh** · 02-04-2003, 07:28 PM

How do you restart the ftp deamon?

**Dave_Bechtel** · 02-04-2003, 10:27 PM

--Why do you not want to use inetd for this? What are you trying to accomplish, in other words...

--I normally use xinetd myself, but on debian it's kind of a pain. Right now I've got proftpd running standalone, outside of inetd.

Originally Posted by Hermanh

How do you restart the ftp deamon?

**Hermanh** · 02-05-2003, 01:29 AM

I use inetd. I try to get security arranged. I know some people who know a lot about Linux. They all say that I should restart the deamon and not inetd to get chroot working.
I (maybe just a little bit simple) thougth I just stop inetd and restart it. But those people say: No you should restart the deamon, not inetd, which is just the Superserver. They do not know which deamon it is, and I do not know which deamon it is. So how can I restart it.
I just want to change the root of the remote user to /mnt/hda1/ftp. So he can not see the whole distro.

(Next step will be tunneling trhough SSH).

**castelid** · 03-27-2008, 05:38 PM

sorry, I'm not a big fan of initd. I do understand the point behind it, for example minimize resources but for the purpose of this it's best to start FTP as a dedicated service...

here's an alternative to INITD which starts ftp daemon as a standalone dedicated service.

# -D = Detach and become deamon
# -h = Passive mode

/usr/sbin/in.ftpd -Dh

The ftp accounts are controled via passwd (standard Unix authentication) ...

/usr/sbin/adduser ftpuser
# or whatever it is

I believe when logging into FTP you will default into your Home directory.
From there you can simply create soft links to other directories.

ln -s /mnt/hda1 /ramdisk/home/ftpuser/hda1