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.
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
/var/run/run/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 9, with 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
/etc/proftpd.conf
-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.
