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Asked: 2012-06-30 13:35:44 +0800 CST

How to tell which of the two FTP server running is serving an FTP request?

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I was asked to reconfigure and make some order in a FTP server which is operating on Ubuntu 10.04. I have root access to the machine.

When checking what server is running, I get:

# ps -ef | grep ftp
root      2287     1  0 Mar19 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd
root     26380 26369  0 Jun27 ?        00:00:02 /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server

From the man pages I understand that vsftpd and sftp-server are both FTP server software. How can I tell which server is actually serving an FTP request from a remote machine?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    sftp-server does not serve FTP requests. It is for SFTP, which is actually SSH and not FTP at all.

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