How to start / stop proftpd
Use netstat to see what process is holding port 21:
# netstat -tnlp
And from there you can use RPM to see what package owns the file to stop it and remove it from init.d
.
If your server has Plesk ProFTPD daemon is xinetd
. Use
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart
To stop proftpd
/sbin/service proftpd stop
to stop it from starting with the system
/sbin/chkconfig proftpd off
to start proftpd with the system
/sbin/chkconfig proftpd on
to manually start proftpd
/sbin/service proftpd start
and to restart it
/sbin/service proftpd restart