It sounds like there may be some confusion as to what the service command does.
/sbin/service is basically a script that prepends "/etc/init.d" to whatever argument you feed it. When you enter "service vsftpd start" it says service not found because it has no script in /etc/init.d. The reason it has no script in /etc/init.d is because it is an xinetd service and must be started/stopped within xinetd. The easiest way to manage services (xinetd based or other) is through chkconfig. Just type "chkconfig --list <service name>" and it will tell you whether it is enabled or not. To enable a service, do "chkconfig <service name> on". If it is xinetd based, it will change to "disabled" to "no" and restart xinetd for you. Naturally xinetd should also be enabled to run at boot "chkconfig --list xinetd". -Steve -----Original Message----- From: Real Cucumber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Rehat 8 - How to Setup FTP Server Disable is already set to no. When I do: service xinetd stop or start - it works When I do: service vsftpd stop or start - it says "unrecognized service". However when I go through the Gnome GUI and click Services, it is listed and checked, but the stop/start buttons are greyed out... I have no idea what is going on - its a fresh install of RH8 in server mode - and I can't get vsftp to run. "Thomas E. Dukes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think you need to look in /etc/xinetd and find the file for vsftpd. Open it and change disable=yes to disbale = no Palmetto Shopper http://www.palmettoshopper.com Serving all of South Carolina and beyond! Palmetto Politics http://www.palmettoshopper.com/politics/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Real Cucumber Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 7:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rehat 8 - How to Setup FTP Server It won't let me... it just says I need to enable xinetd - but that is already enabled.... Wendell MacKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: did you enable the vsftp service? ----- Original Message ----- From: Real Cucumber To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 8:10 PM Subject: Rehat 8 - How to Setup FTP Server Hi, I'm a linux n00b and I've just installed a fresh server install of Redhat 8. I see that it installed 2 FTP packages: -vsftp (secure/full featured ftp) -anonftp (anonymous/read only) So I wanted to get vsftp working, however when I checked in services and tried to start vsftp - it said it required me to enable xinted... however xinetd is already checked and started, I've even tried restarting it yet it will still not let me click the "start" button for vsftp - its greyed out. I can't find any documention or help or even files when searching the hard drive related to "vsftp" If anyone has some kind of a user's guide or quick-start manual it would be appreciated. I'd like to be able to setup user accounts and limit their access to specified directories etc... as well as use SSH FTP and normal FTP connectoins... Any help appreciated. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
