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. Logs are directed to the
configured log output (syslog or logfile) instead.
- -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/