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Hi

Thanks for the help with ftpd.

I've got an ftpd from mulinux that I've got to work now. The problem was that when I ran it by say:

# ./ftpd

it quits straight away. So I ran it with nc like this:

nc -l -p 21 -e ./ftpd

And once I'd added an ftp user to /etc/passwd it worked fine. But obviously for only one connection.

So I wanted to put the following line into /etc/inittab so it would respawn:

c9:5:respawn:/bin/nc -l -p 21 -e /bin/ftpd

Then I do:

# kill -HUP 1 

To get init to re-read /etc/inittab

All this works fine though it would be less hassle with a binary that could run stand alone.

But what I noticed is that if I comment out a line such as the ftpd one in /etc/inittab then did:

# kill -HUP 1

Then ftpd/nc deamon would still be running/respawned. Even if I kill the nc process it would get respawned by inittab.

Is this usual or a oddity of busybox (?) init?

Pete