I have proftpd running in standalone mode on my redhat 9 machine and now want to run it from within xinetd and I'm not sure of a couple things.

First, I altered /usr/local/ftpd/etc/proftpd.conf file so that is says inetd instead of standalone in the ServerType field. That's the only change i made to that config file. ok?

Second, there is no file in /etc/xinetd.d/ related to proftpd. So i just created one myself called proftpd. ok?

From reading it looks like that file should have this inside of it:

service = proftpd
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/local/ftpd/sbin/proftpd
nice = 10
}

ok?

Now I restart xinetd by typing /etc/init.d/xinetd restart and it says it started ok. But when i type:

ftp 127.0.0.1

at the command line it says connection refused. This worked in standalone mode. Any ideas on how I should proceed? Thanks!

fyi (but I have not tested, proftpd runs on our server in standalone and we feel it should stay that way), this is the xproftpd file in xinetd.d on our FC2 server :

service ftp
{
socket_type = stream
wait = no
use = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.proftpd
log_on_success += DURATION USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
nice = 10
disable = yes
}

I assume that config was set up at proftpd install time, as it differs from your on some lines you may find some ideas to test.