new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)
Jonathan Chen
jonc at chen.org.nz
Wed Nov 24 08:10:54 UTC 2010
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 08:41:17PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
[...]
> >Have a FTP server, so I can automate some of the web page graphics
> >updates, from other systems that generate the data, and can FTP files
> >across the LAN, also of course for general web page maintenance needs.
>
> The base system ftpd is run from inetd, a "super server" which can serve
> several small protocols. Have a look at /etc/inetd.conf. The first "real"
> line:
>
> #ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -l
>
> Uncomment that (remove the 'hash'), and save it (you'll have to be root
> again, of course).
An easier solutions would be to enable the ftp server in standalone
mode via /etc/rc.conf:
ftpd_enable="YES"
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Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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