Hi Thanks for the help with ftpd.
I've got an ftpd from mulinux that I've got to work now. The problem was that when I ran it by say: # ./ftpd it quits straight away. So I ran it with nc like this: nc -l -p 21 -e ./ftpd And once I'd added an ftp user to /etc/passwd it worked fine. But obviously for only one connection. So I wanted to put the following line into /etc/inittab so it would respawn: c9:5:respawn:/bin/nc -l -p 21 -e /bin/ftpd Then I do: # kill -HUP 1 To get init to re-read /etc/inittab All this works fine though it would be less hassle with a binary that could run stand alone. But what I noticed is that if I comment out a line such as the ftpd one in /etc/inittab then did: # kill -HUP 1 Then ftpd/nc deamon would still be running/respawned. Even if I kill the nc process it would get respawned by inittab. Is this usual or a oddity of busybox (?) init? Pete
