There are two ways to run the ftpd(8) daemon:
- From legacy Unix: as a service started and stopped by inetd(8) interactively as ftp clients connect and disconnect. Provisioning would be performed in inetd.conf(5). There is an example file in /etc/examples/inetd.conf.
- More commonly: as an always-running service started by the rc.d(8) system at boot. Options and flags are set with rcctl(8). Here's an example of one possible provision and startup -- the daemon will also start at boot thereafter:
Code:
# rcctl enable ftpd
# rcctl set ftpd flags -D -m 0
# rcctl start ftpd