proftpd - Professional configurable, secure file transfer protocol
server
proftpd [ -hlntv ] [ -c config-file ]
[ -d debuglevel ] [ -p 0|1 ]
proftpd is the Professional File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
server daemon. The server may be invoked by the Internet
"super-server" inetd(8) each time a connection to the FTP service
is made, or alternatively it can be run as a standalone daemon.
Each successful and failed ftp(1) session is logged using syslog
with a facility of LOG_FTP. Note: LOG_FTP messages are not displayed by
syslogd(8) by default, and may have to be enabled in syslogd(8)'s
configuration file.
When proftpd is run in standalone mode and it receives a
SIGHUP then it will reread its configuration file. When run in standalone
mode without the -n option, the main proftpd daemon writes its
process ID to /run/proftpd.pid to make it easy to know which process
to SIGHUP.
- -h,--help
- Display a short usage description, including all available options.
- -n,--nodaemon
- Runs the proftpd process in standalone mode (must be configured as such in
the configuration file), but does not background the process or
disassociate it from the controlling tty. Additionally, all output (log or
debug messages) are sent to stderr, rather than the syslog mechanism. Most
often used with the -d option for debugging.
- -q,--quiet
- Quiet mode; don't send logging information to standard error when running
with the -n option.
- -v,--version
- Displays the version number of ProFTPD to stdout.
- -D,--define
parameter
- Sets a configuration parameter which can be used
<IfDefine>...</IfDefine> sections in the configuration files
to conditionally skip or process commands.
- -d,--debug
debuglevel
- Sets proftpd's internal debug level (normally 0). The debuglevel
should be an integer value from 0 to 10, with higher numbers producing
more debug output. Normally, debug messages are sent to syslog
using the DEBUG facility, however if the -n option is used,
all such output is sent to stderr.
- -c,--config
config-file
- Specifies an alternate config-file to be parsed at startup, rather
than the default configuration file. The default configuration file is
/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
- -N,--nocollision
- Disables address/port collision checking.
- -S,--serveraddr
- Specifies an IP address for the host machine, avoiding an DNS lookup of
the hostname
- -t,--configtest
- Read the configuration file, report any syntax errors, and exit.
- -p,--persistent
0|1
- Disables (0) or enables (1) the default persistent password support, which
is determined at configure time for each platform. This option only
affects the default support, it can still be overridden at run-time with
the PersistentPasswd directive.
- -l,--list
- Lists all modules compiled into proftpd.
- -V,--settings
- Displays various compile-time settings and exits.
- -X,--nofork
- Debug mode (do not fork a session process); exits after one session.
- -4,--ipv4
- Support IPv4 functionality only, regardless of whether the
--enable-ipv6 configure option was used.
- -6,--ipv6
- Support IPv6 connections and lookup of IPv6 addresses for server DNS
names. This is enabled by default, if the --enable-ipv6 configure
option is used.
/usr/sbin/proftpd
/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
/usr/bin/ftpwho
/usr/bin/ftpcount
/usr/bin/ftptop
/usr/sbin/ftpshut
/etc/ftpusers
/var/log/xferlog
/run/proftpd.pid
/run/proftpd.scoreboard
ProFTPD is written and maintained by a number of people, full
credits can be found on http://www.proftpd.org/credits.html
proftpd.conf(5),inetd(8),ftp(1),ftpwho(1),ftpcount(1),ftpshut(8)
Full documentation on ProFTPD, including configuration and FAQs,
is available at http://www.proftpd.org/
For help/support, try the ProFTPD mailing lists, detailed on
http://www.proftpd.org/lists.html
Report bugs at http://bugs.proftpd.org/