Installing proftpd

[Pete Holsberg]

Gabriel Dragffy keyed the following on 4/28/2007 6:18 AM:
> Pete Holsberg wrote:
>   
>> I followed <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=79588> to install 
>> proftpd on Kubuntu 6.10, and got this message:
>>
>> "ProFTPd is started from inetd/xinetd"
>>
>> I don't have either of those files. What do I do?
>>
>>     
>
> I think you need to make ProFTP run in Daemon mode. I *think* there is a 
> file in /etc/defaults for proftp, try editing this and telling it to run 
> as a daemon, or to listen.
>
> Sorry I can't be more specific, it's years since I ran proftpd, recently 
> I favour vsftpd.
>   

I decided to install vsftpd instead. Thanks.