proftpd help needed

[jason walding]

I am having trouble controlling proftpd. I wanted to completely stop the server and could not. so I killed the process and tried to restart it. no such luck.
I have read the home pages of proftpd repeatedly and to no avail.

could some one who has mastered the proftpd beast tell me what the correct start and stop command syntax is.
any help would be appreciated.

Let me also say that I can run the proftpd server in standalone mode with the -n option and it works fine, but I can not seem to iniate a restart from a console with any commands.

[war]

heh .. i remember having to fight with proftp :(

pain in da butt !!

in anycase, depending on how you shut it down, there is a file you have to delete before you restart it, unfortunatly it was awhile ago since i played with proftp so i can't remember the name of the file, but i do know that it is in either the man file or the documentation on the site.

sorry i can't be of more help, but at least you now know what is wrong :)

[jason walding]

OK. so I kill the process and proftpd is not running at all.
now without rebooting how do I restart proftpd.

I am starting proftpd at runtime and if I kill it alltogether how do I restart the daemon without rebooting?

I tried using the tool called webmin. I have found it to be a little confusing. also if you edit a config file then edit it again you will find that it leaves garbage in the config file. I do not reccomend for beginers. that could cause real problems in apache.
proftpd seems to resist garbage in the file better.

waiting patiently.

[war]

mmmmm .. i belive is something like

/path/to/proftp/proftpd start

something along those lines, you might have to go into the /bin or /sbin directories in the proftp install dir.

so ..

/path/to/proftp/bin/proftpd start or /path/to/proftp/sbin/proftpd start

the specifics are in the man pages for sure ....