ProFTPD Utilities Documentation

The following is a collection of HTML documentation for utilities which accompany the ProFTPD source distribution.

The ftpasswd utility

Handles the creation/management of AuthUserFile, AuthGroupFile, and UserPasswords.

The ftpcount utility

The ftpdctl utility

The ftpmail utility

Used to automatically send email, triggered by directing the, TransferLog to the script via a FIFO.

The ftpquota utility

Handles the creation/management of quota limit/tally tables of type "file" for the mod_quotatab module.

The ftpscrub utility

Can be used to "scrub" the ScoreboardFile of dead sessions, i.e. caused by sessions which die uncleanly. See the Scoreboard howto for more information.

The ftpshut utility

The ftptop utility

The ftpwho utility

The prxs utility

Used to compile DSO modules.

If your question or issue is not covered by any of these pages, please send a request to the ProFTPD documentation list. Directions for subscribing to the docs list, as well as the other ProFTPD mailing lists, are at:

  http://www.proftpd.org/lists.html

If you are looking to see if ProFTPD supports a particular feature, the first place to look as the complete list of configuration directives:

  http://www.proftpd.org/docs/directives/linked/by-name.html

The list may be intimidatingly long, but it is well worth scanning through all of the directives to see everything that ProFTPD is capable of supporting.