[SLES10 w/ SP3]vsftp root account

[princox]

Atreyu. Glad to get support from you!!!
Concering point 1 and 2, I will try to enable on suse soon. Also thanks for the advanced tips.
I so much appreciated what you've done here.

Jeff

[atreyu]

np.

i just thought of something else. Those other two ftp daemons that you stopped might be configured to autostart upon reboot, so to be safe, you ought to disable them outright. These commands (run as root) should do it, i think:

chkconfig pure-ftp off

chkconfig xinetd off

Note that xinetd controls more than just that second vsftpd daemon. You can run this command to see which daemons are configured to run:

grep disable.*no$ /etc/xinetd.d/*

If it lists any daemons that you do in fact want running (besides vsftpd which you'll control elsewhere), post that back here.

Finally, make sure that the /etc/init.d/vsftpd is configured to autostart:

chkconfig vsftpd on

[princox]

atreyu, the reply is quite a bit late...
I typed the command as below;

chkconfig pure-ftp off
chkconfig xinetd off
grep disable.*no$ /etc/xinetd.d/*
chkconfig vsftpd on

I also attached the result as image file.
chkconfig_result.JPG

*In command grep disable.*no$ /etc/xinetd.d/*, how do I understand the grammar(?) of [disable.*no$] such as * and no$.
** If I would like to run vsftp in xinetd not init.d, how can I do that?

Best Regards
Jeff D. LEE

[atreyu]

If you want to control vsftpd via xinetd:
1. set disable = no in the file /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd
2. disable the vsftpd script in /etc/init.d:

chkconfig vsftpd off

3. make sure xinetd is on:

chkconfig xinetd on

If you want to control vsftpd via the script in /etc/init.d and not from xinetd:
1. set disable = yes in the file /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd
2. enable the vsftpd script in /etc/init.d:

chkconfig vsftpd on

again, the fact that you have both /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd and /etc/init.d/vsftpd is very odd. Did you put one of them there manually? If you have rpm, try these commands:

rpm -qf /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd
rpm -qf /etc/init.d/vsftpd

also, you have a typo in your grep command (diable instead of disable).