WU-FTP Startup Voodoo?

[Thom May]

* Brett Kirksey (ubuntu-users at valx.mailshell.com) wrote :
> On Friday 24 September 2004 at 16:25+0100, Thom May wrote:
> 
> > I just installed it, and it works out of the box - it's running from inetd,
> > so you may need to restart that.
> 
> Okay, what is inetd and how do you restart that?
> 
check /etc/inetd.conf to see that you have a line like:

ftp             stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/wu-ftpd -l

Then, 
sudo invoke-rc.d inetd restart

to restart it.

Seriously though, vsftpd or proftpd are much safer and better options.
-Thom
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That sounds like a lot of work... Can we out source?
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