fresh off the boat, i guess ...

have an old system i want to decommission running 7.2, a freshly installed system on another machine running 7.3 . want to use ftp to transfer some stuff before i shut the old one down. haven't had much of a need for an ftpd for all this time ...

i have wu-ftpd installed on my machine, but between the man pages, various FAQs i can find, posts in this forum ... i cannot find the information that tells me how to start wu-ftpd or any other ftpd.

i've tried one suggestion of 'chkconfig wu-ftpd on' . i've tried simply logging in as root and entering 'root# wu.ftpd' ('wu.ftpd -V' tells me its version & © information ... wu-2.6.1-18) . i've tried in.ftpd .

but the commands issued seem to do nothing. ps x shows no running process that looks like an ftpd .

i know i've done this simply in the ancient past. what am i missing?

you would be better off using NFS or scp.

now it looks like i'm talking to myself, i know ...

very helpful to have the similar threads thing com up right away.

i used another thread that wasn't necessarily related to ftpd to find this guide:

http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

and specifically the following link to tell me that the ftpd will only show up when someone tries to connect:

http://rute.2038bug.com/node32.html....00000000000000

thanks to acid_kewpie for having this in his sig and pointing to it in his post to another user.

now it looks like i'm talking to myself, i know
If you
I. insist wanting to log in over ftp as ROOT (not stating it's a closed and secure LAN you're on), and
II. insist using Wu-ftpd, and
III. insist using a vulnerable version at that,
then, yes, indeed you're talking to yourself.
Ppuru's message may strike you as weird because he isn't out to help you fix your problem, but he *does* try to hint at the Greater Evil. In any case he should have been clearer wrt the reasons *why* he gave the answer.

As with all services the SYSV way their init scripts are in /etc/rc.d/init.d.

With NFS or scp, the copied files and directories will retain their permissions and ownerships on the destination system/drive.

I am not sure if this can be achieved via ftp.

Sorry if my post was a fly in the soup.