WU-FTP Startup Voodoo?

[Thom May]

* Brett Kirksey (ubuntu-users at valx.mailshell.com) wrote :
> Is their some magical incantation to get WU-FTP running that I'm not aware of? I've tried all of the possible names from sbin like in.ftpd, wu.fptd, or even just ftpd. It doesn't return an error or anything. Just returns a command prompt as if I hadn't typed anything.
> 
> I tried the Jedi mind trick (said to the computer "You _want_ to run WU-FTP", but that didn't work either :-) . Is their something in Elvish that will do the job? :-)
> 

I just installed it, and it works out of the box - it's running from inetd,
so you may need to restart that.

16:23 ~/public_html% telnet localhost ftp
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 localhost.localdomain FTP server (Version wu-2.6.2(1) Fri Aug 20
16:31:13 UTC 2004) ready.

/me goes off to purge the evil straight away
-Thom
-- 
That sounds like a lot of work... Can we out source?
The Revolution will not be outsourced!
(Slick/Monique - Sinfest)