Victor Subervi wrote: > Well, man vsftpd: > > VSFTPD(8) BSD System Managerâs > Manual VSFTPD(8) > > .... > > SEE ALSO > vsftpd.conf(5) > > Great. What does that say? > the flags are in that .conf file. so... # man vsftpd.conf lists the 100 or so options in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf > Where are my flags? How do I issue a command to start the service? > man service: > > NAME > service - run a System V init script > > SYNOPSIS > service SCRIPT COMMAND [OPTIONS] > ... > The SCRIPT parameter specifies a System V init script, > located in /etc/init.d/SCRIPT. The supported values of COMMAND > depend on the > invoked script, ... > > And what exactly does that tell me? What is my command? What are my > options? ls -l /etc/init.d/ shows, amongst other files, -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1778 May 28 09:52 vsftpd and, # service vsftpd gives... Usage: /etc/init.d/vsftpd {start|stop|restart|condrestart|status} so, # service vsftpd start # service vsftpd restart # service vsftpd stop would be the main commands you'd be interested in to start, restart, stop the service. and, as others said, # chkconfig vsftpd on is how you configure it to autostart on reboot. > > Lots of stuff online? I went to several of the pages your googling > revealed before posting and there wasn't anything substantial on any > of them. Can you please be more specific? maybe (l)Unix systems administrator is the wrong career path. Also, if you prefer more 'book' like documentation, the CentOS/RHEL 5.2 Deployment Guide gives... http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Deployment_Guide/ch-ftp.html full documentation on vsftpd although this guide tends to lean on GUI configuration tools that I generally ignore in favor of the command line tools. now, admittedly, none of that quite explains 'users'. thats because the 'users' that FTP supports are the SYSTEM users. # groupadd ... # useradd ..... etc. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos