WU-FTP Startup Voodoo?

Brett Kirksey ubuntu-users at valx.mailshell.com
Sat Sep 25 21:10:46 UTC 2004


On Saturday 25 September 2004 at 19:45+0100, Thom May wrote:

>>> . . . check /etc/inetd.conf to see that you have a line
>>> like . . .

>> . . . Okay, bear with me here, just so I will know, what
>> exactly is this doing? . . .

> Inetd fires off a process whenever someone hits the port, so
> you don't get an ftp daemon running all the time, just when
> it's required. . . .

Thank you very much for the explanation. :-)

Thanks
Brett




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