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NAME
proftpd - Professional configurable, secure file transfer protocol
server
SYNOPSIS
proftpd [ -hlntv ] [ -c config-file ] [ -d debuglevel ] [ -p 0|1 ]
DESCRIPTION
proftpd is the Professional File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server
daemon. The server may be invoked by the Internet "super-server"
inetd(8) each time a connection to the FTP service is made, or
alternatively it can be run as a standalone daemon.
Each successful and failed ftp(1) session is logged using syslog with
a facility of LOG_FTP. Note: LOG_FTP messages are not displayed by
syslogd(8) by default, and may have to be enabled in syslogd(8)'s
configuration file.
When proftpd is run in standalone mode and it receives a SIGHUP then
it will reread its configuration file. When run in standalone mode
without the -n option, the main proftpd daemon writes its process ID
to /usr/local/var/proftpd.pid to make it easy to know which process to
SIGHUP.
OPTIONS
-h,--help Display a short usage description, including all available
options.
-n,--nodaemon
Runs the proftpd process in standalone mode (must be
configured as such in the configuration file), but does
not background the process or disassociate it from the
controlling tty. Additionally, all output (log or debug
messages) are sent to stderr, rather than the syslog
mechanism. Most often used with the -d option for
debugging.
-q,--quiet Quiet mode; don't send logging information to standard
error when running with the -n option.
-v,--version
Displays the version number of ProFTPD to stdout.
-D,--define parameter
Sets a configuration parameter which can be used
<IfDefine>...</IfDefine> sections in the configuration
files to conditionally skip or process commands.
-d,--debug debuglevel
Sets proftpd's internal debug level (normally 0). The
debuglevel should be an integer value from 0 to 10, with
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higher numbers producing more debug output. Normally,
debug messages are sent to syslog using the DEBUG
facility, however if the -n option is used, all such
output is sent to stderr.
-c,--config config-file
Specifies an alternate config-file to be parsed at
startup, rather than the default configuration file. The
default configuration file is /usr/local/etc/proftpd.conf
-N,--nocollision
Disables address/port collision checking.
-S,--serveraddr
Specifies an IP address for the host machine, avoiding an
DNS lookup of the hostname
-t,--configtest
Read the configuration file, report any syntax errors, and
exit.
-p,--persistent 0|1
Disables (0) or enables (1) the default persistent
password support, which is determined at configure time
for each platform. This option only affects the default
support, it can still be overridden at run-time with the
PersistentPasswd directive.
-l,--list Lists all modules compiled into proftpd.
-V,--settings
Displays various compile-time settings and exits.
-X,--nofork Debug mode (do not fork a session process); exits after
one session.
-4,--ipv4 Support IPv4 functionality only, regardless of whether the
--enable-ipv6 configure option was used.
-6,--ipv6 Support IPv6 connections and lookup of IPv6 addresses for
server DNS names. This is enabled by default, if the --
enable-ipv6 configure option is used.
FILES
/usr/local/sbin/proftpd
/usr/local/etc/proftpd.conf
/usr/local/bin/ftpwho
/usr/local/bin/ftpcount
/usr/local/bin/ftptop
/usr/local/sbin/ftpshut
/etc/ftpusers
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/var/log/xferlog
/usr/local/var/proftpd.pid
/usr/local/var/proftpd.scoreboard
AUTHORS
ProFTPD is written and maintained by a number of people, full credits
can be found on http://www.proftpd.org/credits.html
SEE ALSO
proftpd.conf(5),inetd(8),ftp(1),ftpwho(1),ftpcount(1),ftpshut(8)
Full documentation on ProFTPD, including configuration and FAQs, is
available at http://www.proftpd.org/
For help/support, try the ProFTPD mailing lists, detailed on
http://www.proftpd.org/lists.html
Report bugs at http://bugs.proftpd.org/
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