The vsftpd RPM installs the /etc/rc.d/init.d/vsftpd script, which can be accessed using the /sbin/service command.

To start the server, as root type:

/sbin/service vsftpd start

To stop the server, as root type:

/sbin/service vsftpd stop

The restart option is a shorthand way of stopping and then starting vsftpd. This is the most efficient way to make...

 You can always test whether the VSFTPD process is running by using the netstat -a command, which lists all the TCP and UDP ports on which the server is listening for traffic. This example shows the expected output:

 

[linux@hc ~]$ netstat -a | grep ftp

tcp        0      0 *:ftp                       *:*                         LISTEN 

 

 First, install the required packages:

* net-snmp (this provides the snmp server)

* net-snmp-utils (this provides tools like snmp-walk)

 

To configure an SNMP server, community strings need to be defined. This is done in the following configuration file:

 

/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

 

The version of the configuration file that comes with SNMP is quite complicated. A simpler version will suffice for the setup discussed in this article.

 

Before proceeding further, make a backup of...

 Alternate install CD

The alternate install CD allows you to perform certain specialist installations of Ubuntu. It provides for the following situations: setting up automated deployments; upgrading from older installations without network access; LVM and/or RAID partitioning; installs on systems with less than about 256MB of RAM (although note that low-memory systems may not be able to run a full desktop environment reasonably).

In the event that you encounter a bug using the...

 With Fedora, Redhat, Ubunbtu and Debian You can start, stop, or restart VSFTPD after booting by using these commands:

[root@bigboy tmp]# /etc/init.d/vsftpd start[root@bigboy tmp]# /etc/init.d/vsftpd stop[root@bigboy tmp]# /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

With Redhat / Fedora you can configure VSFTPD to start at boot you can use the chkconfig command.

[root@bigboy tmp]# chkconfig vsftpd on

With Ubuntu / Debian the sysv-rc-conf command can be used like this:

root@u-bigboy:/tmp# sysv-rc-conf...

 Display current active Internet connections

 

[root@localhost ~]# netstat -nat

Active Internet connections (servers and established)

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address               Foreign Address             State      

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:199                 0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3306                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      

tcp        0...

 Display open ports

 





[root@localhost ~]# sudo netstat -tulp

 

Active Internet connections (only servers)

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address               Foreign Address             State       PID/Program name   

tcp        0      0 *:smux                      *:*                         LISTEN      10218/snmpd         

tcp        0      0 *:mysql                     *:*                      ...

 Display the routing table

 [root@localhost ~]# route -n

 

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
172.16.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 172.16.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0


[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway...

 Activate network interface eth0 with a new IP (172.168.10.50) / netmask:
$ sudo ifconfig eth0 172.168.10.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

 Display network interface information

$ ifconfig

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfigeth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:17:E0:2C            inet addr:172.16.0.203  Bcast:172.16.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1          RX packets:679219 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0          TX packets:262977 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000         ...