On a typical Linux setup, the ftp server is not always running. Instead,
inetd monitors the ftp service port (port 21) and starts up ftpd on demand
(subject to any access restrictions you've set up, assuming you run tcpd or
equivalent). This is the Slackware default, so in less you specifically
changed it yourself, that is what you are seeing. It's no problem at al,
just normal operation of inetd.
Not sure why you "can't seem to get it [ftpd] back up". I imagine it fails
because it finds port 21 already in use (monitored by inetd), but since I
don't know what you tried or what error message you got, this is only a guess.
At 08:42 AM 4/13/99 -0400, Jeff Reichert wrote:
>Hello,
>I was messing around with my FTP last night and I used the command
>ftpshut with no parameters after it. It subsequentially shutdown the FTP
>server and I can't seem to get it back up. It does not run as a daemon as
>explained in the Linux book, ftp just runs when someone requests it. I
>have restarted the machine but that did not bring it back up. Please help
>me. I am sure it is simple and I am missing something.
>I am running 2.0.33 Linux slackware 3.0
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