inetd Configuration for wu-ftpd

inetd (pronounced "eye-net-d") is the extended Internet services daemon, and handles incoming connections for network services. This daemon controls a number of services on your system according to settings in /etc/inetd.conf.

To start inetd as root, issue the command /etc/init.d/inetutils-inetd start. This makes a call to the same shell script that is called at any runlevel to start or stop the inetd daemon (and thus start up or shut down the system). inetd should report its status as

# /etc/init.d/inetutils-inetd restart
Stopping internet superserver inetd:                                      [  OK  ]
Starting internet superserver inetd:                                      [  OK  ]

Once restarted, the FTP server is accessible to all incoming requests.

Starting the Very Secure FTP Server (vsftpd) Package

You can use the shell script named vsftp under the /etc/init.d directory to start, stop, restart, and query the vsftpd server. You must have root permission to use the vsftpd script to control the server, but any user can query the server (to see if it is running and to see its process ID number) using the status keyword, like this:

$ /etc/init.d/vsftpd status

Be sure not to run two FTP servers on your system at the same time!