I wish to set pure-ftpd to run as an Anonymous only ftp server with upload and create directory and even read . files and all that but simply chrooted to /home/openftp/

I could not work out what edits to make to the config files as noted in man pure-ftpd
It has got me a little Konfuzed cause I dont do any programming and this is my first debian.

i thought perhaps I should run it stand-alone from a local config script as it is just to be anon only ftp

i have not yet changed the default config files.

thanks bunches for any input


here they are;

grace@hometown:~$ uname -r
2.6.12-9-amd64-generic


Reformatting pure-ftpd(8), please wait...
root@hometown:/usr/share/man# cd -
bash: cd: OLDPWD not set

root@hometown:/usr/share/man# cat /etc/default/pure-ftpd-common
# Configuration for pure-ftpd
# (this file is sourced by /bin/sh, edit accordingly)

# STANDALONE_OR_INETD: valid values are "standalone" and "inetd".
# Any change here overrides the setting in debconf.
STANDALONE_OR_INETD=inetd

# UPLOADSCRIPT: if this is set and the daemon is run in standalone mode,
# pure-uploadscript will also be run to spawn the program given below
# for handling uploads. see /usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/README.gz or
# pure-uploadscript(8)

# example: UPLOADSCRIPT=/usr/local/sbin/uploadhandler.pl
UPLOADSCRIPT=

# if set, pure-uploadscript will spawn $UPLOADSCRIPT running as the
# given uid and gid
UPLOADUID=
UPLOADGID=
root@hometown:/usr/share/man#

and

root@hometown:/usr/share/man# cat /etc/init.d/pure-ftpd
#! /bin/sh
#
# pure-ftpd     starts and stops the pure-ftpd ftp daemon

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
NAME=pure-ftpd
DESC="ftp server"
: ${SSDAEMONLOGOPTS:="--quiet"}
UPLOADDAEMON=/usr/sbin/pure-uploadscript
UDNAME=pure-uploadscript
UDDESC="ftp upload handler"
WRAPPER=/usr/sbin/pure-ftpd-wrapper

# try to figure with suffix this script is called,
# $0 might be a symlink pointing to this script
if [ -h $0 ]; then
        ME=`/bin/readlink $0`
else
        ME=$0
fi

SUFFIX=`basename $ME | sed -ne 's/^pure-ftpd-\(.*\)/\1/p'`
if [ "$SUFFIX" ] ; then
        DAEMON=/usr/sbin/pure-ftpd-$SUFFIX
else
        DAEMON=/usr/sbin/pure-ftpd
fi

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
test -x $WRAPPER || exit 0

export STANDALONE_OR_INETD=inetd
test -r /etc/default/pure-ftpd-common && . /etc/default/pure-ftpd-common

set -e

start_uploadscript() {
        if [ "$UPLOADSCRIPT" -a "$STANDALONE_OR_INETD" != inetd ] && \
                egrep -i '^[    ]*(yes|1|on)[   ]*' /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/CallUploadScript > /dev/null 2>&1
        then
                UOPTS=""
                test "$UPLOADUID" && UOPTS="$UOPTS -u $UPLOADUID"
                test "$UPLOADGID" && UOPTS="$UOPTS -g $UPLOADGID"
                echo -n "$1 $UDDESC: "
                start-stop-daemon --start $SSDAEMONLOGOPTS --oknodo \
                        --exec $UPLOADDAEMON -- -r "$UPLOADSCRIPT" -B $UOPTS
                echo "$UDNAME."

        fi
}

case "$1" in
  start)
        test "$STANDALONE_OR_INETD" = standalone || exit 0
        echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --start $SSDAEMONLOGOPTS --pidfile /var/run/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.pid \
                --exec $WRAPPER -- $SUFFIX
        start_uploadscript Starting
        ;;
  stop)
        echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --stop $SSDAEMONLOGOPTS --oknodo \
                --pidfile /var/run/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.pid
        start-stop-daemon --stop $SSDAEMONLOGOPTS --oknodo --exec $UPLOADDAEMON
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
  restart|force-reload)
        test "$STANDALONE_OR_INETD" = standalone || exit 0
        echo -n "Restarting $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --stop $SSDAEMONLOGOPTS --oknodo \
                --pidfile /var/run/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.pid
        start-stop-daemon --stop $SSDAEMONLOGOPTS --oknodo --exec $UPLOADDAEMON
        sleep 1
        start-stop-daemon --start $SSDAEMONLOGOPTS --pidfile \
                /var/run/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.pid --exec $WRAPPER -- $SUFFIX
        start_uploadscript Restarting
        ;;
  *)
        N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
        echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0
root@hometown:/usr/share/man#