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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 11:00:47 +0100
From: J.S. <johann@broadpark.no>
To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
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Subject: Re: rc.local? crontab? what?
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I've tried that as well:

ftpd	stream	tcp	nowait	ftpd	/home/ftpd/openftpd/sbin/ftpd	ftpd

With little or no luck.

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 08:36:48 +1100
Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:27:55PM +0100, J . S . wrote:
> > I'm in the process of setting up an additional ftpd on my server
> > (openftpd.org), which has been installed in user ftpd's home directory.
> > The user ftpd has a nonexistent shell.
> > 
> > How can I get it loaded at startup?
> > 
> > I tried putting:
> > 
> > su ftpd -c /usr/home/ftpd/openftpd/sbin/ftpd
> > 
> > in /etc/rc.local, but I heard that doesn't work now that I removed ftpd's
> > shell.
> 
> Have a look at /etc/inetd.conf on how the normal ftpd is started
> and use a similair way to start yours.
> 
> Edwin
> 
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