Pure-FTPD runs in standalone in inetd. just commented out the ftp line in
/etc/inetd.conf and will do the trick

last resource remove it,
WT

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs@shubes.net> wrote:

> keith smith wrote:
>
>>
>> I was looking around and found  SERVICEDIR="/etc/init.d"   in the
>> /sbin/service file.  So I took a look in the /etc/init.d and found
>> pure-ftpd.
>>
>> So I issued : /sbin/service pure-ftpd stop
>>
>>
>> which returned :
>>
>>
>> Stopping pure-config.pl: cat: /var/run/pure-ftpd.pid: No such file or
>> directory
>>
>> kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or
>> kill -l [sigspec]
>>
>
> Far from elegant, but it appears that pure-ftpd wasn't running.
>
> # service pure-ftpd status
>
> usually will tell you if a service is running or not.
>
>
>
>> As a test I issued : /sbin/service vsftpd stop
>>
>> which returned : vsftpd: unrecognized service
>>
>
> Then vsftpd isn't installed.
>
>
> # rpm -qf /etc/init.d/pure-ftpd
> will tell you the name of the package that owns the init script.
> # rpm -e <package>
> or
> # yum remove <package>
> will remove it.
> Then you might want to reboot to be sure it's not running any more. If you
> have sftp working, chances are pretty good that pure-ftpd isn't running,
> unless you're using non-standard ports.
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
>
>
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