running two vsFTPd in the same server

super user · 05-03-2012, 05:30 AM

hi everybody
I am trying to run two copies of vsFTPd daemon on the same server, and both are listening to IPv4 socket (IPv6 is kept away), is that possible ?

bathory · 05-03-2012, 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by super user

hi everybody
I am trying to run two copies of vsFTPd daemon on the same server, and both are listening to IPv4 socket (IPv6 is kept away), is that possible ?

It is, if both instances are listening on different ports, or different interfaces. See the "listen_port" and "listen_address" directives of vsftpd.conf

Regards

druuna · 05-03-2012, 06:35 AM

Hi,

Do be careful when installing 2 or more instances: Not only do you need to make sure the port/interface is unique, you also need to make sure that each instance has its own pid file (in Debian that would be /var/run/vsftpd/vsftpd.pid), this to make sure they can be started and stopped using the init files. This is done in the init scripts.

It might also be a good idea to separate the created log files (done in the vsftpd.conf file).

Hope this helps.