From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 23:51:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (Ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EABEC14DE9 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:51:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA81766; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:21:26 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <199908110651.QAA81766@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ftpd question In-Reply-To: <000501bee3ac$a92e0c80$0201010a@cmr.net> from Mark Einreinhof at "Aug 10, 1999 10:50:31 pm" To: Mark Einreinhof Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:21:26 +0930 (CST) Cc: Freebsd-Questions X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL56 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I want to start and stop ftpd via the command prompt. A howto out there? I > used the /stand/sysinstall to get anon ftp going. Now I just want to bring > ftp up and down as needed, not every time I reboot. Comment out the line in /etc/inet.conf which starts ftpd whenever somebody connects (or are you running ftpd as a daemon?). Then just start it everytime you want to by executing it (/usr/libexec/ftpd) and killing it when done. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message