how to start Pure-ftpd with -w switch
Hello All

First off i am a Ununtu Noob (big time), i understand the concept of programming, i'm just simply no good at it. Long time Windows user so going back to a command line style takes a change of thinking. To help me get used to this i use Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit on a Acer Revo 3700, which acts as my media by running XBMC (eden beta 3). I also use transmission.

Now I've experimented with different Ubuntu ftp servers and settled on pure-ftpd (because i could use pure-admin as a GUI for users)

My problem is that for speed of use i want to be able to do site-to-site (FXP) transfers from the Ubuntu box to my NAS drive.

Now using google i understand i need to stop the pure-ftpd daemon and restart it with the -w switch (i tried to write my own script but got lost).

I have tried the commands

sudo service pure-ftpd stop
sudo pure-ftpd -w

and it works, but want i cant do is make pure-ftpd do this (pure-ftpd -w) as standard on boot.

Please help what do i need to do?

Thanks

James

(by the way ubuntu has helped me make a kick-*** HTPC so i'm in love )

Hi!

Open /etc/init.d/rc.local and add the line pure-ftpd -w that should bring up the daemon at startup.

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Hi zWaR

thanks for your rapid response

i opened up a terminal, typed

gksudo nautilus

navigated to the file you quoted and opened it up, now I don't know where to put the command in the code below:

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: rc.local
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog $all
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: Run /etc/rc.local if it exist
### END INIT INFO


PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin

. /lib/init/vars.sh
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

do_start() {
if [ -x /etc/rc.local ]; then
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_begin_msg "Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local)"
/etc/rc.local
ES=$?
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg $ES
return $ES
fi
}

case "$1" in
start)
do_start
;;
restart|reload|force-reload)
echo "Error: argument '$1' not supported" >&2
exit 3
;;
stop)
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 start|stop" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac