Running ProFTPD on 10.2

Aug 24, '02 09:40:06PM

Contributed by: batguano

A previous hint here on Macosxhints detailed the installation of ProFTPD from source on Mac OS X 10.0.x and 10.1.x.

Things are a little different with Jaguar (10.2) as ftpd is now controlled by 'xinetd' rather than 'inetd', whereas the previous hint (and the ReadMe file included with ProFTPD 1.2.4 for Mac OS X) suggested replacing a line in /etc/inetd.conf, the file now to be changed is /etc/xinetd.d/ftp.

Look for the line that reads:

  server          = /usr/libexec/ftpd
and change this to:
  server          = /usr/local/sbin/proftpd
Also change the line:
  server_args     = -l
to:
  server_args     = 
In other words, just remove the '-l'.

The other steps in the previous hint are correct (turning off ftp in the Preference Pane, etc). However I would recommend downloading the package installer for Proftpd 1.2.4 for Mac OS X and going from there rather than compiling from the source.

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