daryl.mu

I couldn’t get this working in inet.d mode but here’s what I did to get it working in standalone.

1. Install ProFTP
sudo apt-get install proftpd
2. Edit proftpd.conf
sudo vi /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
Make sure that ServerType is set to standalone and that you have your chosen hostname in ServerName.
ServerName myftphost
ServerType standalone
3. Make sure you have the same host name in you /etc/hosts file
sudo vi /etc/hosts
It should read something similar to:
# IPv4
127.0.0.1 localhost
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx myftphost
#
# IPv6
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback myftphost
You should then be able to start the server with:
sudo /etc/init.d/proftpd start