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Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
man vsftpd.conf I am embarassed for having missed that. I didn't know there was a man page for the conf file. This is very useful information because until now I wasn't even aware that conf files might have a man page
If vsftpd is in standalone mode, this is the port it will listen on for incoming FTP connections. If standalone, does that mean that it is no longer started by xinetd? I tried tampering and using netstat and ps to get an idea of what is going on but I am still confused. I see that when I changed the listen_port to 16 and restarted, I could only make an ftp connection on port 16 and not 21 but with netstat it appears that something is still listening on 21. I also noticed that ps -A didn't show vsftpd until I tried connecting.
It may be I have it all wrong, but am I correct in thinking that even in standalone mode, vsftpd is still started by xinetd but spun off to a separate process when a connection is made? What do I have to do to get port 21 not show as listening? Damon Register