ProFTPD Components
The following section provides information about the commands, files, and other important
components of the ProFTPD service. You can find additional documentation for the ProFTPD service in
the /usr/share/doc/proftpd directory on a system running the Oracle Solaris 11
release.
ProFTPD Commands
The following table describes the commands and daemons that
are associated with the ProFTPD service.
Table 1 ProFTPD Commands
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| Provides the user interface to the ProFTPD service. See the ftp(1) man page for more information.
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/usr/bin/ftpcount
| Shows the current number of connections per proftpd server, as well as per virtual host or anonymous configuration. See the
ftpcount
(1)
man page for more information.
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| Controls the proftpd service daemon. See
the ftpdctl(8) man page for more information.
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/usr/bin/ftptop
| Displays the current status of FTP sessions in a continuously updating format. See the ftptop(1) man page for more information.
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| Shows process information for all active proftpd connections and a count of all connected users to each proftpd server. See the
ftpwho
(1)
man page for more information.
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/usr/sbin/ftprestart
| Restarts FTP connections by using the ftpshut –R command. See the ftpshut(8) man page for more information.
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/usr/sbin/ftpscrub
| Removes processes that are no longer live from the scoreboard file on demand. See the ftpscrub(8) man page and ProFTPD: ScoreboardFile for
more information.
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| Shuts down FTP connections at a given time. See the ftpshut(8) man page for more information.
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| Provides FTP services. See the proftpd(8) man page for
more information.
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ProFTPD Files
The following table lists many of the files that are associated with
the ProFTPD service and their functions.
Table 2 ProFTPD Files
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| Includes most of the configuration parameters that need to be
defined in order for the ProFTPD service to function.
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| Includes information used by the ftpshut command.
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| Lists the users to be disallowed FTP login privileges. Provided
for backward compatibility with the wu-ftpd service.
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| Lists log information for ProFTPD.
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/var/run/proftpd.scoreboard
| Includes tracking information for each current session, which
is used by commands like ftpcount, ftptop,
and ftpwho. See ProFTPD: ScoreboardFile for
more information.
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ProFTPD User
A user and a group named ftp are created
by the ProFTPD installation process. The ProFTPD server runs under
these credentials.