HDS ViewStation System Administrator's Guide

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Starting FTP on your Host Computer

This page describes starting FTP on your host computer. See also other pages specific for various hosts.
Starting FTP
A startup line for FTP is present in the /etc/inetd.conf file, but is often commented out.

#ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/in.ftpd inftpd

2. Remove the comment character ( # ) from the beginning of the line.

3. Restart the inetd process. Find the process identification number (PID) from the following command:

ps -aux | grep inetd

Then issue this command:

kill -1 [PID]

This restarts the inetd process and starts the FTP daemon.

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